Welcome to the Friday, January 4, 2008 special edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only running review of the best posts that we can find in the week's best business and money-related blog carnivals!
What makes this edition special is that it's the first half of a two part edition of OMM in which we're recapping the best posts we found in the blog carnivals of 2007, as well as naming the best bloggers we found through those carnivals as well! In this post, along with revisiting the top eight posts we encountered last year, we'll also declaring one to be The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere!(TM)
It's a great edition - literally every post is Absolutely essential reading!(TM) The very best of the year that was awaits you below....
Wenchypoo doesn't rant that often, but when she does, she skewers the target of her ire better than some of the most popular pundits. Her well deserving target here? Environmental alarmists!
The last thing a lot of people think about is what it takes to be a good manager. And that includes a lot of managers. Warren Wong lays out a path for how to become one.
Katie Delahaye Paine presents the results and practical recommendations from new research into how to build trust between people, in business and in politics. The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere!
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Welcome to the Friday, January 4, 2008 special edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only running review of the best posts that we can find in the week's best business and money-related blog carnivals! 
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