On the Moneyed Midways - January 4, 2008

Welcome to the Friday, January 4, 2008 special edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only running review of the best posts that we can find in the week's best business and money-related blog carnivals!

What makes this edition special is that it's the first half of a two part edition of OMM in which we're recapping the best posts we found in the blog carnivals of 2007, as well as naming the best bloggers we found through those carnivals as well! In this post, along with revisiting the top eight posts we encountered last year, we'll also declaring one to be The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere!^(TM)

It's a great edition - literally every post is Absolutely essential reading!^(TM) The very best of the year that was awaits you below....

On the Moneyed Midways for January 4, 2008
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Entrepreneurs	Personal Training?... That Will Never Work!	Renovate Your Life with Craig	Craig Harper on how he made his "other" business a success. Great, common sense, "just do it," advice for budding entrepreneurs!
Carnival of Fraud	Invasion of the Pos People, Round 2	Wisdom from Wenchypoo's Metal Wastebasket	Wenchypoo doesn't rant that often, but when she does, she skewers the target of her ire better than some of the most popular pundits. Her well deserving target here? Environmental alarmists!
Carnival of Real Estate	Real Estate Licensing Laws Are a Criminal Conspiracy Against the Consumer Created By and For the Benefit of a Cartel	BloodhoundBlog	Gregg Swann examines the world of real estate he knows best and explains much of how the world works in the process. A sheer tour-de-force!
Carnival of Small Business Issues	Be a Good Manager by Letting People Learn and Grow	INTJ Personal Development	The last thing a lot of people think about is what it takes to be a good manager. And that includes a lot of managers. Warren Wong lays out a path for how to become one.
Carnival of the Capitalists	Put Your Trust in Systtems, Not in Genius	Three Star Leadership	Wally Bock spans centuries of real life lessons and management theory in establishing how to truly build a successful organization.
Carnival of the Capitalists	The CEO vs. the Bankers: Death by Transactions	Trusted Advisor	Charles H. Green pits an experienced CEO against the best and brightest of the new crop of powerhouses making waves and deals on Wall Street.
Carnival of Trust	Greater Transparency is the Key to Building Greater Trust	The Measurement Standard	Katie Delahaye Paine presents the results and practical recommendations from new research into how to build trust between people, in business and in politics. The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere!
Festival of Frugality	Save 95% on Groceries, a.k.a. Why You Should Shop at Ethnic Markets	Cheap Healthy Good	Kris shows how expanding your culinary horizons can also expand your wallet in exploring those little ethnic markets tucked away near you.

Previous Editions

• OMM's Running Index for 2007
  
• The Best Blogs Found in 2006 (and our full 2006 index)!