Welcome to the Friday, February 1, 2008 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, the blogosphere's only weekly review of the best posts from best of the past week's major business and money-related blog carnivals!

Time is short for us as we're wrapping up this edition, so we'll just go straight to it! The best posts of the week that was await you below....

On the Moneyed Midways for February 1, 2008
Carnival	Post	Blog	Comments
Carnival of Debt Reduction	Developing a Snowflaking Mentality	I've Paid Twice for This Already…	PaidTwice explains snowflaking, providing five tips that anyone seeking to reduce their debt or increase their savings can use to achieve their goals with much less noticeable pain!
Carnival of Money Stories	I Love Lucy Frugality	Dollar Frugal	Brooke describes the experience of taking frugality too far and ending up looking very foolish as a result.
Carnival of Personal Finance	4% Withdrawal Rule for Retirement	Quest for Four Pillars	How can you avoid running out of money after retiring? Four Pillars explains how you can make your retirement savings last as long as you do!
Carnival of Real Estate	Gotcha GuideTM: Agent Bonuses Are Bunk! Offer Real Incentives	Texas Realty Blog	DeeinAustin isn't a fan of the half-baked recipe for homesellers offering bonuses to agents for showing prospective buyers their homes! Absolutely essential reading!
Carnival of Taxes	Bank of America Buys Countrywide to Save on Taxes	Living Off Dividends	Living Off Dividends describes the primary motive for banking powerhouse BofA (BAC) to invest another $4.1 billion to fully buyout failing mortgage lender Countrywide (CFC): a $500 billion return!
Carnival of the Capitalists	Does Soaking the Rich Actually Work?	Fundmastery	Kurt Brouwer reviews a recent WSJ article by Arthur B. Laffer that shows that when it comes to their ability to avoid higher taxes by being able to change how and when they make money, the super-rich really are different from every other taxpayer.
Cavalcade of Risk	Baboons Can Demonstrate the Same Risk Management Skills as Some Managers	Security Views	What can a responsible risk manager learn from rampaging baboons? Scott answers in The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Economics and Social Policy	Socialized Medicine: Replacing Health with Politics	Wills Percpective	Will Simpson finds that before Americans consider going down the path of increasing government control of their health care, they should consider that the risks exemplified by the countries that already have: waiting lists, rationed care, and a healthy and growing black market!
Festival of Frugality	Smaller Is Better - TT#21	Stop the Ride!	Is smaller better when it comes to the size of your home? Stephanie names thirteen reasons why bigger homes may not be better for her family of six.
Festival of Stocks	American Express (AXP) is Simply Exceptional	College Analysts	Financial stocks have been getting beaten up in the stock market, but with lower rates coming from the Fed, James Cullen finds the company's sound fundamentals underscore the reasons to be excited to buy AmEx at today's prices.
Odysseus Medal (Real Estate)	"114 Pounds of Absolute Perseverance"	Redfin Corporate Blog	The case of a client suing her former agent both illustrates the perils of outsourcing their brain to a real estate agent (or any other kind of agent) and the sense of trust that agents risk by not clearly pursuing their client's best interests.

Previous Editions

• OMM's Running Index for 2008
• OMM's Running Index for 2007
• The Best Blogs Found in 2006 (and our full 2006 index)!

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