Carnival of Personal Finance #151, Get Your Finance Fix
Written by admin on May 6th, 2008 | Filed under: blog carnivals
Alpha Consumer published the latest personal finance carnival, and it’s jam packed with articles about the stimulus rebate checks, gas prices and how the bloggers of personal finance are dealing with the economic squeeze. Here are a few blogging appetizers for you, but be sure to visit Alpha consumer for the entire edition.
- The Money Kings tell us to reduce the amount of gas we use - great idea, considering Jeremy has shared with us that we’re spending over $13 a gallon to drive.
- Finance is Personal convinces us why the emergency fund is essential.
- American Consumer News assesses the financial situation in five steps.
- Flying by the Seat of Your Pants (literally) and some Carnivals JC Penny is running an outstanding promotion that ends today! The skinny is that you spend $125 on pants and get a round trip ticket. Destinations are limited, but it includes a lot of major cities (including Boston and San Francisco, where I would use it). Check out the details......
- Newsweek Suggests it's Your Patriotic Duty to Stop Saving and Start Spending Newsweek's cover story entitled "Stop Saving Now!" has altered -- more like adulterated -- the classic image of Uncle Sam's military recruitment poster "I Want You" into a spending recruitment post of "I Want You to Start Spending". I'm so against this type of irresponsible financial mentality that it irks......
- Welcome to this week's Carnival Here are this week's debt reduction posts for your reading pleasure (personal debt reduction story at the top!): Personal Finance Journey cut the cable and applied the savings to Operation Destroy Debt. Debt-Tips.com discusses the pros and cons of debt settlement. Free Money Finance calls the mortgage interest tax deduction......
- Natural Gas Powered Vehicles paying $0.87 per Gallon? It would seem T. Boone Pickens and his Pickens Plan followers are about to receive a flood of new supporters if headlines like these can be generated on a consistent basis. And yes, it's confirmed, select residents in Utah who are fortunate to drive Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles......
- Best of the Rest: Independence Day Edition Happy Fourth of July everyone! I hope nobody is reading this and that you're BBQ-ing and watching some fireworks. And since everyone has tomorrow off, I'm gonna come back Monday with some fresh content that I think you guys will really enjoy. I've been working on some stuff (some of......
