From across the pond Plonkee Monkey brings us the 135th Carnival of Personal Finance. Thanks Plonkee for including my submission.
Here are some good posts I never would have found if I did not read the carnival:
- For the second week in a row I want to highlight The Financial Philosopher. This week's carnival piece may be more philosophy than finance but it is well worth the read.
- Is it too good to be true? Ask Kimberly Palmer who writes Alpha Consumer as she tells us about Paying for Free Money.
- Over at Two Nickles there is a good post about The one good thing about the falling stock market.
- Nigel from Salt Lake Real Estate Blog suggests Starbucks as a Leading Indicator of the housing market. Hmmm.
- Bob Vineyard, CLU from Insure Blog offers something to think about in Phantom Insurance and Other Ways to Waste Dollars.
- And after reading Bob's post you should also read what Curtis wrote at Real World Finance$, The US Health Care Crisis which does an economic analysis of the potential effects of various political intervention.

Thank you, Joe, for the kind words, and the link.
Have a great weekend!
Posted by: hgstern | January 18, 2008 at 02:48 PM