Good Reads From The Blogosphere
Some excellent reads to broaden your horizon!
The Financial Blogger with an interesting take on frugality!
Ken@Spruce Up Your Finances on how to deal with hobby income and expenses come tax time. Bookmark this one!
Dividend Monk with an excellent analysis of Emerson Electric Company.
The Passive Income Earner with How To Start Dividend Investing With Little Money. Geared for Canadians, but the advice holds good for US investors as well!
Beating The Index on Why Electric Cars Won’t Kill Oil Anytime Soon. Confused on what to do? Buy a Prius, but keep investing in oil companies! 
Everyday Tips and Thoughts…: A post from probably my favorite blogger! Sometimes There Just Isn’t A Right Or A Wrong- Just Let Others Be
Dinks Finance on Sovereign Citizens Don’t Pay Taxes or Parking Tickets. I don’t think I want to be a sovereign citizen no matter how convenient not having to pay taxes sound!
Suba on How to save money on magazine subscriptions. I get Forbes, Business Week and Barron’s and I don’t pay a thing and no I didn’t use my position as a finance blogger to get these for free! Suba’s tips are spot-on.
Ashley@Money Talks on her first experience selling on Craigslist. You do it once, you’ll keep doing it!
Jeffrey @ Money Spruce on Just Switch Out of the Big Banks Already! If you haven’t done it yet, this may be your wake-up call!
Financially Consumed on Is online education for you?
Darwin’s Money on College Costs Have Gone Parabolic – What You Can Do Now. The rate at which tuition costs have gone up is more than that of health care! Good post on what your options are.
101Centavos: One Dividend Stock I’m Buying, and One I’m Still Thinking About. Curious? Find out!
Robert@DIY Investor with What You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Managing Your Own Assets But Were Afraid to Ask. A very informative post!
Money Reasons: If you have kids, the best gift you can give them is opening a Roth IRA. MR lists the benefits.
Joe@RetireBy40 thinks a million dollars is not enough! I agree, do you?
Squirrelers on when you should fire your doctor! For what we pay towards healthcare, shouldn’t we at least get good service?
The College Investor on the Ultimate Roth-401K guide. Best of both the worlds?
LaTisha at FYSA on How to Benchmark a Portfolio. Very useful post.
The Dividend Ninja on what is a Dividend Payout Ratio. If you are a dividend investor, don’t ignore this metric!
Untemplater with a review of Vibram’s FiveFinger footwear – they might look reptilian, but they are super comfy!
Dividend Mantra on DRIPs
CashFlowMantra asks Are You Ready for Stock Market Limbo?
Sandy@yesiamcheap with The Government Gives Free Appliances? Could this be true? Find out!
Khaleef@FaithfulWithAFew on the growth of contingent workforce and what that could mean to you.
Joe@Personal Finance By The Book discusses Social Security strategies for married couples.
Carnivals I participated:
Carnival of Wealth #47 – July 17 2011 Edition
Yakezie Carnival – Tour de France Financial Factoids – June 26th, 2011 Edition
Tax Carnival #88: Tax Independence
Best of Money Carnival – Gambling Edition
Totally Money Blog Carnival – It’s So Hot Edition
Festival of Frugality #289: Tax-Free Retirement Edition [Editor's Pick]
CARNIVAL OF FINANCIAL PLANNING – EDITION #193 – JULY 15, 2011
Best of the Rest: New (To Me) Car Edition
Carnival of Wealth #48 – July 24 2011 Edition
Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #194
Carnival I hosted
I also had the privilege to host Totally Money Blog Carnival – Trivia Edition. There is an interactive quiz based on my top picks. See how many you can get right!
Have a relaxing weekend and a very profitable week ahead!
Ciao!
Great roundup, MC – thanks for including my dividend post.
Thank you so much for including me. I sincerely appreciate it.
Great roundup MC – touches on a diversified perspective of personal finance. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome, thanks MC.
I appreciate the mention. Interesting articles.
Nice roundup – thanks for the include!
Awesome round up. Got some catching up to do!
Thanks for the mention!!
Thanks for including my blog in this nice roundup you put together.
Great roundup Money Cone,and thanks for including me!
and also, thanks for the very kind words!!!
Great roundup and thanks for the mention!
Thanks for the mention!!!
These carnivals look like an excellent way to get some exposure and have folks acknowledge work well done. I’m looking forward to participating in some down the road.