Welcome to this week's edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the only place on the Internet where you can catch up with the best posts from each of the week's blog carnivals related to business and money matters. Every week, we also award one post with the title The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM)

This week had a much larger than average number of high quality posts hidden among each of the week's blog carnivals - several were serious contenders for being The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!, but in the end, we opted for our favorite kind of post - the kind that uses direct observation and/or data to contradict the "conventional wisdom" we hear all too often in the mainstream media! Scroll down for the best of the week that was....

On the Moneyed Midways for September 30, 2006
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Business	Improve Quality by Increasing Quantity	WOW	Alexander Becker finds it takes quantity to develop quality - his WOW blog is worth reading just to see where he developed his!
Carnival of Career Intensity	Conquer Fear, Take Action!	The Blogging Boss	Eric Boehme focuses upon just what taking action means when it comes to overcoming one's fears.
Carnival of Fraud	US Elementary and Middle School Curriculum "Overly Broad and Superficial"	Freeman Hunt	Are state and national learning standards short-changing U.S. students? Freeman Hunt asks the question that begs answers from the education establishment.
Investing Carnival	How to Choose Dividend Growth Stocks	The Skinny Investor	The Skinny Investor shares a middle-ground strategy for choosing a portfolio of dividend growth stocks.
Personal Growth Carnival	How to Get Ahead: Lie and Cheat?	Passion, People and Principles	David Maister wonders about the impact of a generation of MBA students where a majority admit cheating to get ahead in school.
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Starting from Scratch - Laying the Groundwork	Savvy Saver	If you recently graduated from school with a lot of debts, the Savvy Saver takes you through the steps she's taking her brother to get financially independent!
Carnival of Personal Finance	Would You Lose 10 Pounds If Someone Paid You $2000?	Getting to Enough	Could insurance premiums saved over 20 years be enough incentive to lose weight today? Gte has the scoop on one company's policies.
Cavalcade of Risk	What Does It Mean to Live in a Riskier Society?	RiskProf	"Generally," says the RiskProf, "it means more wealth and well-being," in excerpting a book critique that compares today's world to 1970.
Festival of Stocks	The Eighty Cent Dollar	Inelegant Investor	The Inelegant Investor provides their rationale for investing in a company that "has no employees," "leases nothing more than a storage space," and is sitting on a large hoard of cash.
Carnival of Real Estate	Kicking the Tires on Housing Futures as a Predictive Tool	True Gotham	Are the new housing futures markets accurately predicting the direction of local housing markets? Douglas Heddings contrasts where the futures markets are pointing against his own direct observations in The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Personal Development Carnival	Wanna Be More Productive? Trash that Bloody PDA!	RadicalHop	Peter Kua makes a great argument for P&P technology (that's "Pen and Paper") over the PDA in a fun post!
Carnival of the Capitalists	Passchendaele in the Office	The Scratching Post	K.T. Cat identifies what today's managers could learn from a battle in World War I.

Previous Editions

• On the Moneyed Midways – September 30, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 23, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 15, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 8, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – September 1, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 25, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 19, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 11, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – August 4, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 29, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 14, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – July 7, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 30, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 23, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 16, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 9, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – June 2, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 26, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 19, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 12, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – May 5, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 28, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 14, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – April 7, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 31, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 24, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 31, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – St. Patrick's Day 2006 Edition
• On the Moneyed Midways – March 10, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways - The inaugural edition from March 3, 2006!

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