have the knight take the blacksmiths sword to slay the dragon that takes 700 gold from you, you get 500 gold and around 50 happiness back
take in every citizen as during my run this always ended up good
the mage that looks like merlin is usually good and sometimes bad (overall great gamble) and the duke of spook guy is usually bad and sometimes good (gamble only when broke or have high happiness and population as he reduces both by 15)
the scientists gold machine only needs the initial investment to finish
hire the purple witch to kill goblins
get the blacksmith, baker, granny, and the barber to move in
when bankrupt the best way for me to return to a postive number of gold is the offer to sell stuff but the people wont be happy from the kings advisor