I participated in three carnivals this week: carnival of personal finance #161 hosted by The Budgeting Babe, Carnival of Money Stories #68 hosted by Funny About Money, and the Festival of Frugality #134 hosted by On Financial Success. All three hosts did a stellar job and, as usual, there are tons of great [...]

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Special thanks to Mighty Bargain Hunter for including my post on the Permanent Portfolio in this week’s carnival of personal finance.  This week’s theme was the American Flag and our distinguished host did a great job.  Here are a few of my favorite posts from the carnival.
Would You Risk Your Life To Get Out Of Debt?  [...]

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Than’s to Lisa at Greener Pastures for including my post about logical fallacies in the financial media in this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance #159.  Some of my favorite posts of the carnival:
How The Rich Spend Their Time by Smart Money Daily.  Surprise surprise, wealthy people spend less time being idle and more time being productive.  The [...]

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Don’t forget to drink plenty of American beer!

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First off, let me announce that apparently I’m a “known spammer”.  A few weeks ago, a spammer sent out tens of thousands of spam emails from bogus email accounts using my domain.  Consequently, it looks like I’ve been placed on Akismet’s “spammer” list even though I had nothing to do with it and no way to prevent [...]

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Some of you may have heard of the Permanent Portfolio (PRPFX), an unorthodox mutual fund that bears more resemblance to a modern university endowment (such as the famous Yale endownment) than a traditional retail mutual fund.  What’s so unusual about it?  For starters, the fund has only half its assets in traditional mutual fund asset [...]

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Ah, the age-old question:  do the rich pay their fair share in taxes?  Many liberals argue that they don’t, saying the rich owe their success to the efforts of the poor and middle class and should bear a higher percentage of the tax burden in gratitude.  On the opposite side of the spectrum, most conservatives [...]

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I will be at the beach this weekend so no posts today or tomorrow.  I had hoped to have a few posts prepared to fill in the gaps but unfortunately, things have been extremely hectic the past week and I wasn’t able to pull it together.  Things will be back in full swing monday, though.  [...]

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I participated in two carnivals this week: Three Rules of Leveraged Investing appeared at carnival of personal finance #155 hosted at Moolanomy and do inflation numbers match your experience? appeared at carnival of money stories #62 hosted at Finance Gets Personal.  Here are a few of my favorite links from both.
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Five Things Indiana Jones Can Teach Us [...]

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My post exploring whether or not the falling dollar will cause inflation was highlighted as an editor’s pick in this week’s carnival of personal finance #154 hosted by Canadian Dream.  Great job hosting and thanks for the recognition!  Here are a few posts from this week’s carnival that caught my eye.
Organic Tomatoes and KY Jelly [...]

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