On the Moneyed Midways - June 6, 2008

Welcome to the Friday, June 6, 2008 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, your weekly review of the best posts to be found in the best of the past week's business and money-related blog carnivals!

And we're back as promised! Not having been back very long we focused mainly on catching up with the best of the business end of the blogosphere this week, so we'll just keep things moving quickly along to the best of the week that was - it's all waiting for you below....

On the Moneyed Midways for June 6, 2008
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Saving Money Is In! The Recession Diet and the Shift to Frugal Living	The Digerati Life	The Silicon Valley Blogger explains what a "recession diet" is and how families everywhere are already reacting to today's economic circumstances to sustain the kind of lifestyle they want to have, at lower prices!
Carnival of Personal Finance	Stop Complaining About Gas Prices!	The Red Stapler Chronicles	Instead of getting all worked up about things over which you have little control, like gas prices, Kevin argues that what you really need to do is focus on the things over which you *do* have control - and finds that you might even come out ahead!
Carnival of Real Estate	Is the Good Faith Deposit at Risk?	Searchlight Crusade	If you're a real estate agent, how do you answer your client, whether they be a buyer or seller, if they ask if their good faith deposit is at risk? Dan Melson looks at the various angles and even brings Schroedinger's Cat into the picture.
Carnival of Trust	Stop Negotiating, Start Collaborating	agile management	David Anderson provides Absolutely essential reading showing how a collaborative approach toward achieving a common goal based on trust can outperform a more typical approach where roles and responsibilities are negotiated.
Cavalcade of Risk	The Freedom of Individual Health Insurance	Colorado Health Insurance Insider	The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere! Jay demonstrates why everyone ought to have their own individual health insurance, on top of what their employer provides!
Festival of Stocks	How to Profit from Bubbles	My Wealth Builder	Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke chartered a study on the phenomenon of financial bubbles while still in academia and the team that performed the study worked out why they happen and how an investor can profit from them before they burst. Absolutely essential reading!
Carnival of Money Stories	Success Stories: Single Parent Saves Over $310,000 by Age 38	Can I Get Rich On a Salary	G Blogmaster relates the story of Daren Fike, whose wife died of leukemia in 2003, leaving him with a 16 month old daughter. In the years since, Fike has accumulated $310,000 in total savings using a highly disciplined approach to managing money that can work for anyone.
Money Hacks Carnival	Don't Buy Things Made Out of Potatoes - Just Buy Potatoes!	Living the Cheap Life	Did you ever compare the prices of store-bought potato chips, french fries or hash browns to the cost of just buying potatoes and making them yourself? Mike did and found a fountain of savings!

Previous Editions

• OMM's Running Index for 2008
  
• OMM's Running Index for 2007
  
• The Best Blogs Found in 2006 (and our full 2006 index)!