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Friday, May 19, 2006

On the Moneyed Midways - May 19, 2006

Two brand-spanking-new Carnivals join this week's edition of Political Calculations' On the Moneyed Midways (OMM for short!) As luck would have it, both new carnivals focus on careers, suggesting that Rob May's observation that the proliferation of "second-movers" will lead to fewer and fewer readers for each individual carnival, as the market fractures into smaller and smaller pieces, is dead-on.

Then again, that kind of proliferation is why OMM is slowly gaining readers, since someone needs to sort the wheat from the chaff. That, and where else can you easily keep track of everything going on in the sphere of money-related blog carnivals?

But enough justifying OMM's existence - you're here to catch up with the best business, investing, debt-reduction, frugal-living, personal finance and now career-related posts from the week's money-related blog carnivals! Here they are in all their glory, including The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM)

Update: All links now working!

On the Moneyed Midways: May 19, 2006
Carnival	Contributor	Post	Comment
Carnival of Business	Is SOX draggin down the US economy?	Professor Bainbridge	Professor Stephen Bainbridge finds evidence that the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) legislation went too far in regulating publicly traded U.S. companies, putting them at a real disadvantage in the global marketplace.
Carnival of Career Intensity	How to Change Your Career with a Blog	Career Change and Executive Coaching	Margaret Stead provides interesting advice on what blogging might provide for those seeking a change in career.
Carnival of the Capitalists	Gresham's Law and Leadership	Slow Leadership	Carmine Coyote explores how bad management becomes the norm when meeting ""the numbers"" becomes more important than sound business practices. Runner up for being the Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM)
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Lessons to Live By?	No Credit Needed	No Credit Needed provides the lessons they learned in becoming debt free.
Carnival of Entrepreneurship	VC Cliché of the Week	A VC	BusinessPundit's Rob May called this the best post the week for the Entrepreneur's Carnival, and we'll go a step further by calling it the Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM), as it deals with the intricacies of the best ways to get both money or advice (by asking for the other!)
Carnival of Investing	Investing with Leverage for Wealth	Personal Development Blog	Alex Scheel Meyer unlocks the power of leverage (via Physics) for increasing wealth.
Carnival of Marketing	Starbucks = Coffee	Multiple Mentality	Josh Cohen finds that Starbucks is positioning itself to become the brand name people associate with coffee (ala Xerox for copies or Kleenex for tissue paper).
Carnival of Personal Finance	Americans Are NOT in Bad Shape with Credit, Sort Of	Consumerism Commentary	We always hear that soaring credit card debt is about to wreck the average U.S. consumer, but Flexo finds data that suggests otherwise.
Festival of Frugality	Saving on Groceries	MotherLoad: The Mom Advice Blog	Amy reveals the secrets of frugal grocery shopping - everything you need to know to cut your food bill!
Festival of Job Hunting	What the 4% Salary Increase Means	Find a New Job	Jose Anes explains exactly what it means if you received a raise equal to or less than 4% in 2005.