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Friday, May 5, 2006

On the Moneyed Midways – May 5, 2006

Once again, you can find the best business, economics, personal finance, investing, marketing and frugal living posts from this week's major blog carnivals right here at Political Calculations' roundup On the Moneyed Midways. And once again, you can find the Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM) here as well.

But what you can't find this week is a post from the Carnival of Entrepreneurs, who didn't have a host blog lined up! Hopefully they'll be back in action next week. In the meantime, here are the top posts of the week that was in Blog Carnival Land....

On the Moneyed Midways: Cinco de Mayo 2006 Edition
Carnival	Contributor	Post	Comment
Carnival of the Capitalists	ExecuPundit	Lessons from Jerks	Michael Wade finds virtues where you would least expect them: the jerks with whom you work! The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Carnival of the Capitalists	Gongol.com	The Gasoline Rebate	Brian Gongol examines whether the bad effects of a proposed gasoline tax rebate outweigh the good.
Carnival of the Capitalists	The Entrepreneurial Mind	The Highway to Success	Professor Jeff Cornwall reveals that even the most successful entrepreneurs skirt the edge of failure.
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Canadian Financial Stuff	Guilty as Charged: Fifteen Free Coffees	The Big Cajun Man has a Big Tim Horton's Coffee Addiction - which could be a good source for freeing up cash to pay off debt!
Carnival of Investing	It's Just Money	Top Ten Mistakes that Investors Make	lamoneyguy offers a countdown of the most common mistakes made by investors, whether novices or experienced.
Carnival of Marketing	Neuroscience Marketing	Decision Making and the Brain	Neuroguy reports that scientists have found the part of the brain that encodes economic values - can better marketing be far behind?
Carnival of Personal Finance	Firevalt	Cash Flows vs. Account Balances	Firevalt answers the question of which is more important - having a large account balance or a positive cash flow?
Festival of Frugality	It's Just Money	How Much Does Your Commute Cost?	We here at Political Calculations love it when people find useful tools on the web! lamoneyguy qualifies for a second slot in the OMM by finding a neat tool for determining how much you're spending on your commute - and here's the shocker: the recent run-up in gas prices doesn't have that big an effect!