Today is Weekend Reading, camping edition! Hopefully the weather will be nice here on the east coast before a hurricane heading straight our way arrives! New York City will get 100 m.p.h winds on Sunday (forecast as of the time of this writing), which is pretty nuts…
Here are the posts of the week:
Weekend Reading
- Hyperion Exploration: Confident to Meet or Exceed 2011 Guidance (Beating the Index)
Career
- Five Career Killer Moves (Prairie EcoThrifter)
- Lessons from business school: life’s hardest knocks expose life’s greatest opportunities (Super Frugalette)
- Nervous About a Potential Layoff? (Money Crush)
Economics
- Is Capitalism Doomed? The Cliche of Our Time (Darwin’s Money)
- Why Americans Hate Economics (The Daily Capitalist)
Government
- Why is the Mainstream Media Ignoring Ron Paul? (101 Centavos)
- Why the Elite Hates Capitalism (Mises Canada)
Investing
- Inflation: Using real vs nominal rates of return (Retire Happy Blog)
- Online RRSP calculators freak me out (My Own Advisor)
- Public Vs Private Secondary Schools (My University Money)
- There’s No Such Thing as a “Risk Free” Investment. (Investor Junkie)
Miscellaneous
- Gorilla Pod to the Rescue! (Little House)
- Why Steve Jobs Resigned and More (Invest in the Markets)
- You Realize Books Are Free, Right? (Canadian Finance Blog)
Personal Finance
- Financial Lessons for the Kid in All of Us (Enemy of Debt)
- Financial Rant: Ill Explained Surrender Charges Don’t Make Me Happy (Good Financial Cents)
- How To Evaluate The Benefits Of Breaking Your Mortgage (The Passive Income Earner)
- Lottery: Is It Really A Stupid Tax? (Buck Inspire)
- Park Your Idle Cash Wisely (World of Finance)
- Prepare For A Hurricane Financially (Financially Consumed)
- The Law of Attraction and Money (Young & Thrifty)
Carnivals
- Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #198 (Cash Money Life)
- Carnival of Wealth #Who’s Counting? (Control Your Cash)
- Totally Money Carnival #33 (Parenting Family Money)
Video
FOFOA is celebrating three years of blogging, and had a roundup with a bunch of nice music clips. Here was one of his picks:
Have a good and safe weekend, everyone.
Thanks Kevin, I’ll see you on the other side of Irene.
Thanks for the inclusion Kevin!
Thanks for the mention, Kevin.
I love camping- nothing to do except plan for what to eat next (or BBQ) 🙂
Thanks, Kevin, for including my link!
Thanks for the link, Kevin. And nice mention of FOFOA.
I like the categories! Have fun camping-hope the weather holds out!
Thanks for the mention. Stay safe!
Thanks for the mention! Have a great, safe weekend!
Interesting roundup. I enjoyed reading the links. 🙂
Thanks for the mention!
Thanks for the comments and for stopping by, everyone! Hope everyone was safe through Irene.