On the Moneyed Midways - August 30, 2008

Welcome to this special Saturday, August 30, 2008 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the only place you'll find the best posts from the best of the past week's money and business-related blog carnivals!

Oh, who are we kidding! If you're a longtime reading of OMM, you already know that "special" is our marketing word for "late"! And if you're a new reader, well, now you know too!

The best posts from the past week await you below!...

On the Moneyed Midways for August 30, 2008
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Debt Reduction	How Eating Baked Beans Saves Me Over 1500 Dollars a Year	Engineer a Debt Free Life	A lot of madsow's co-workers give him weird looks for his fondness for eating cold baked beans, but he's laughing all the way to the bank at the rate of $30 per week!
Carnival of Personal Finance	Leaving the Workforce at 29: Where Do I Go from Here?	My Dollar Plan	Madison DuPaix is really 29 and really about to retire. And yet, she wonders how she's going to handle the transition. Absolutely essential reading!
Carnival of Real Estate	What the Surprising Strength of the U.S. Dollar Is Doing to Mortgage Rates	The Mortgage Reports	Dan Green notes that mortgage bond rates are tracking along with the U.S. dollar, which is not only benefiting today's mortgage shopper, but is likely to benefit tomorrow's too.
Cavalcade of Risk	Banking on Continued Risk in Lending Markets	The Aleph Blog	David Merkel charts the tightening underway in U.S. credit markets and discusses what that means for banks and borrowers.
Festival of Frugality	Don't Go to a Private University	Blueprint for Financial Prosperity	Jim takes on his role of devil's advocate in arguing that private colleges, like Harvard, aren't worth the premium you pay for the supposed advantage you might gain in networking there!
Festival of Stocks	American Water Works Co. Inc. (AWK) - Flooding Impacts Earnings	ZachStocks	Zach, who holds a short position in the stock, makes the case that American Water Works is likely to go lower in the near future.
Money Hacks Carnival	10 Tips To Becoming a Make Money Online Sheep	Swollen Pickles	Are you finally ready to MAKE MONEY ONLINE? Swollen Pickles tells you the 10 things you need to do to become an MMO sheep. Baaaaa!
Carnival of Money Stories	On Money, Personal Finance and Being Judgmental	Tough Money Love	Mr. Tough Money Love justifies swinging his handy clue-by-four in The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!

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)!