Archive for June, 2008

This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted by Greener Pastures: Personal Finance and takes us outside of Abu Dhabi for the first planned zero-emissions city, being built from scratch.

Here are the host’s picks for best articles:

• Congressional testimony: Student credit card issuers under investigation
• Four Specific Paths To Automatic Saving and Investing
• Retirement Savings 101: All about retirement accounts (and why to start saving now!)
• George Carlin Tribute – Finance Jokes
• 4 Phases of Money Merging
• Big Toys For Top Dollar: 5 Reasons People Spoil Their Kids
• The Surprising Costs of DIY
• Creating My List Of Financial Priorities
• TradeKing Review: A Discount Broker with Loads of Features
• The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Money Making WordPress Blog
• Six Overlooked Reasons why you are struggling with your finances: Reason #6 – System Failure

The hosting schedule for the Carnival of Personal Finance through September will be released early this week, so get ready for the next round of great personal finance articles!

Mrs. Micah is channeling Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the 158th Carnival of Personal Finance. Here’s are the editor’s picks for best of bleed… er… breed:

• My Incredibly Skrinking Savings Account – Are Savers Financial Losers?
• Make Bi-Weekly Pay Work in a Bi-Monthly World
• The Price of Your Favorite Color
• The Vending Machine 2 for 1: Frugality or Stealing?
• Is it Frugal or Stealing?
• Monopoly Game Expansion: Personal Savings Account
• Economy of Technology: Smoke and Mirrirs With the iPhone
• My Personal Finance Confession Project: Credit Card Rates

Thanks to everyone who participated this week!

The Carnival is in the final week of accepting applications for those who would like to host in the upcoming months. If you are interested in hosting the Carnival of Personal Finance, find out more about it here.

The Carnival of Personal Finance is celebrating three years today with the latest edition hosted at the origin, Consumerism Commentary. There were a lot of great articles to choose from; the quality of the writing continues to increase across the board. Here are my picks for Editor’s Choice:

• What’s Your Financial IQ? Here’s a Test.
• Politics and Your Money
• My Top 5 Personal Finance Blunders
• Too Much Debt Can Ruin Your Health
• Become Rich By Helping Others
• Financial Super Powers Series: Time Control and Super Speed
• How to Teach Your Kids About Money
• The Four Pariahs

Thank you to everyone who participated in the third anniversary edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. We’re taking requests for future hosts, so if you’d like to organize the Carnival of Personal Finance in the future, let us know.