Welcome to the Friday, July 10, 2009 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, where each week, you can catch up with the best posts we found in the past week's business and money-related blog carnivals!
Can you really ever recover from the financial impact of attending college? How exactly does debt settlement work? What can you do to find out if that investement advisor you're considering hiring hasn't already pulled a Bernie Madoff? Did Al Capone really live *that* modestly? And why does Costco put so many high-dollar item goods between the entrance and where the food is?
The answer to these questions, and more, await you below!...
You've seen an endless number of commercials for it on TV, and heard even more on the radio, but how does debt settlement work? Jim Wang runs through the basics!
"When customers have money to spend, they're in the driver's seat. If you want to keep them as a customer, you need to be agile…." - Sharlyn Lauby, in The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
You might think a post about Warren Buffet from the Festival of Stocks would have to do with his rather famous ability as an investor. Instead, eMoneyLog focuses on his ability as a solid businessman.
What would happen if you had two friends, both having saved for college, but one who went and the other who put their savings in the stock market instead? Jennifer McClelland answers the question in Absolutely essential reading!
Welcome to the blogosphere's toolchest! Here, unlike other blogs dedicated to analyzing current events, we create easy-to-use, simple tools to do the math related to them so you can get in on the action too! If you would like to learn more about these tools, or if you would like to contribute ideas to develop for this blog, please e-mail us at:
Political Calculations' Recession Probability Track shows the probability that the U.S. economy will be in recession 12 months from the indicated date (shown in red) while revealing the probability trend over the past four years.
Previously, the probability of recession peaked at 50% on 4 April 2007, which means that March-April 2008 was the most likely period in which the NBER would have found the U.S. to be in recession.
As it happens, they almost did. The NBER instead chose December 2007 as the beginning month of the most recent recession (we had found a 46% probability for a recession beginning in that month!)
On the Moneyed Midways
Political Calculations is also the online home of On the Moneyed Midways (aka OMM), a review of the best posts contributed to the week's best business and money-related blog carnivals. More than that, we also name one post in each edition as being The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere! and at the end of each year, we name The Best Post of the Year, Anywhere! as well as identifying the best blogs we found during the course of the year!
The link below will take you to the running index containing our most recent back issues (you can easily navigate the index to find older editions.)
The tools on this site are built using JavaScript. If you would like to learn more, one of the best
free resources on the web is available at W3Schools.com.
Other Cool Resources
ZunZun - Exceptional regression analysis tool. Wolfram Integrator - Solve integrals. Do calculus! Create a Graph - Easy-to-use basic graph-making tool. Many Eyes - Data visualization extraordinaire!
Welcome to the Friday, July 10, 2009 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, where each week, you can catch up with the best posts we found in the past week's business and money-related blog carnivals! 
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