Welcome to the November 15, 2007 edition of the Carnival of Financial Planning.
The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. We focus on efficient and sustainable personal financial planning practices that can lead to lifetime financial security. This edition is arranged by subject heading, so that you can browse efficiently.
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The Skilled Investor
Budgeting
FMF presents It’s Easy to Become Wealthy posted at Free Money Finance, saying, “The path to wealth is rather simple.”
Madeleine Begun Kane presents Charge! posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
Adam Faughn presents Life with Pets posted at Where Your Treasure Is, saying, “This brief article shares a humorous look at trying to live within a budget while having a “soft side” for animals.”
Economics
Ian Welsh presents Bernanke Cuts Another Quarter posted at The Agonist, saying, “What this means for you is simple enough: the prices of food, heating oil and transportation will keep going up. If you’re in an inflated housing market, expect the value of your main asset to drop. And expect inflation to break out from food and energy into a lot of consumer goods.”
Numerian presents As Wall Street Awaits its Destruction posted at The Agonist, saying, “Is Wall Street facing financial Armageddon? It’s at least as serious a financial crisis as has ever been seen in living memory.”
Ian Welsh presents The Wile E. Coyote Economy posted at The Agonist, saying, “The US economy and US markets have been operating like Wile. E. Coyote running off a cliff. For years many of us have been looking at the US like Wile E. Coyote, scratching our heads and wondering “What the heck is keeping him up there?””
Sagar presents 12 Surprising Implications of Londons Replacing New York as the Worlds Financial Center posted at Currency Trading.net.
Charles H. Green presents The CEO vs. the Bankers: Death by Transactions posted at Trust Matters, saying, “The history of capitalism is one of scale economies, enabled by parceling out pieces of work to others. Every time you do that, you gain scale, and you create a transaction. The irony is that the cost of the transactional mindset is now exceeding the savings of scale.”
Estate Planning
Ralph Morgan presents Make Hay While the Sun Shines posted at Enough Wealth, saying, “This may be “as good as it [...]