Welcome to the November 17, 2006 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's weekly review of the best business, management and money-related posts from each of the week's major blog carnivals! Each week, we select one post from among the hundreds that we read as being The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!^(TM)

But, what about those situations where there are many strong contenders for the top spot, as we've had in recent weeks? To address this situation, we've created a new category to direct you to these well-written posts, which we find to be Absolutely essential reading!^(TM) Just scroll down for the best of the best and the best of the rest of the week that was....

On the Moneyed Midways for November 17, 2006
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Business	76% Think You Are a Liar	Seeds of Growth	Dave Free compares traditional marketing with an approach that uses Consumer Advisory Panels to build more effective word-of-mouth.
Carnival of Career Intensity	Why More People Should Consider Quitting Their Jobs	Innovation Zen	Daniel Scocco lists seven things you should consider to decide if you should stay where you are or strike out for new opportunities.
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Debt: Face the Numbers	The Weight of Money	Should you carry big debt on your credit cards? Donna Jean shares her very real numbers to show just what carrying debt can really cost you!
Carnival of Fraud	SOX, Trust and Ethics	SOX First	Leon Gettler reports on recent findings that reveal that regulations designed to rebuild trust in corporations and other institutions are actually undermining real trust from developing. Absolutely essential reading!
Carnival of Home Business	Small Business Pitfalls	Blogfabulous	Kim Banks discusses the downside to running your own business from home.
Carnival of Investing	Index Investing Out-Performs Most Actively Managed Funds, Costs, Taxes Are Why	FreeMoneyFinance	How much do expense ratios and taxes affect your investment returns from mutual funds and ETFs? FMF shows why the low fees and taxes that come with index investing outpace actively managed funds.
Carnival of Personal Finance	Financial Politics	eFIPO	Does spending your own millions to win an election make sense? Budding politician Jamie Beaudry learns campaign finance from recent history!
Carnival of Real Estate	Tearing Down a Brick Wall: The Problem with Sellers	Matrix	Jonathan J. Miller is waiting for sellers to adjust to the realities of the current real estate market and contemplates what's taking them so long.
Carnival of Real Estate Investing	Schadenfreude	Lording the Land	The Landlord highlights other blog posts telling tales of real estate investments gone south, deals gone wrong, and those on the road to financial devastation.
Carnival of the Capitalists	Counterpoint: Patents and Defensibility	How to Change the World	Guy Kawasaki posts a response to his recent diatribe on the patent process - as it happens, it's a very good description of how patents can be used to defend a company's brand in the marketplace.
Economics and Social Policy	Hallowe'en Economics	thesharpener	Donald writes from England and is amazed at the boom in sales of Halloween merchandise in the U.K. over the past five years.
Festival of Frugality	Saving Money on Road Trips	The Simple Dollar	The Simple Dollar finds some expected and unexpected savings for traveling long distances by car. Who knew MapQuest and Google maps could steer you wrong?!
Festival of Investing	uWink: A Promising Project fro mGaming's Most Legendary Entrepreneur	ValueBlogger	Kevin Kelly and Zac Bissonnette profile a new restaurant concept - one that seeks to differentiate itself with technology to encourage interaction among customers by providing a social gaming environment.
Carnival of Fraud	My Recent Mistakes at Value Investing	Experiments in Finance	Two investments. Two mistakes. Two losses. All avoidable - at least if Ricemut had heeded value-investing pioneer Benjamin Graham's "margin of safety" rule.
Personal Development Carnival	Trust Tip #14: More Hard Talk About Soft Skills	Trusted Advisor Associates	Charles H. Green provides maybe the best advice for building trust ever. The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Personal Growth Carnival	Why the Kaizen Approach Helps You Make Changes in Your Life	kSuccess	Kaizen is the Japanese word for continuous improvement - Rodger Constandse shows how the kaizen approach can help you overcome obstacles on your way to a better you!
Personal Growth Carnival	How to Avoid Manic Entrepreneurship	Instigator Blog	"Entrepreneurs are not the most level-headed people around," Ben Yoskovitz observes in providing advice for avoiding the emotional peaks and valleys that come with being an entrepreneur.
Wealth Building Ideas	Innovations About Innovating	David Maister	David Maister has been attending a conference on innovation in Denmark and presents the key points he's picked up on how to stimulate innovation in business.

Previous Editions

• On the Moneyed Midways – November 17, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 11, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – November 3, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 27, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 21, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 13, 2006
• On the Moneyed Midways – October 6, 2006
• 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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