Welcome to the Friday, November 13, 2009 edition of On the Moneyed Midways! Each week, we bring you the best posts we found among the best of the past week's business and money-related blog carnivals for your weekend reading pleasure!
With it being Friday the 13th, we understand that our more superstitious readers might believe they're due for some bad luck. To put your uneasy minds to rest though, you're luck is good - this week's posts included in OMM are of the same caliber and quality that you've come to expect.
Better even! There were quite a few posts jockeying for the title of being The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!, with the criteria for winning coming down to an editorial choice to go with the most timely of the contenders!
Never-the-less, all the posts we selected for this week's edition are well worth your time. For proof, just scroll down....
Stacey Doyle guest posts about her disappointment with the fees charged by commercial debt modification firms after getting behind on her mortgage payments, describing why she's turning to the Fair Housing Authority.
April Dowling got into a discussion with her boss regarding why they went into HR, which turns out to be pretty far from where they originally thought they wanted to go in their careers.
Oddly, Sharon Lauby's post isn't about HR at all. What it is about is how a business can correct a mistake and build a trusted relationship with their customers, which makes it Absolutely essential reading!
Adam Baker is maybe *the* guy who would know all the ins-and-outs of travel hacking, seeing as he's recently relocated his family halfway around the world without having a job lined up first! Absolutely essential reading for his take on how social networking is expanding the options people have in traveling!
Cindy Jones describes Fannie Mae's new "Deed for Lease" (or D4L) program, which could transform the failed government entity into the country's biggest landlord for distressed homeowners otherwise facing foreclosure. The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!
Ben Casnocha recounts several highly successful achievements and products that originally started out as side projects and describes how some companies have made side projects part of their business plan.
Tisha Tolar lists how to recover from or avoid five potential dinner disasters, including salty soup, overcooked pasta, burned steak, less-than-fresh fruits and vegetables and stale rolls!
Why not buy gold? Darwin explains why in terms of the relationship between the shiny yellow metal and the U.S. dollar and describes the things an astute investor could do to hedge potential inflation risks or gain from the fall in the dollar's value.
PT notes how the government-controlled automaker, General Motors, is taking steps to move its employees to health insurance plans with high deductibles combined with Health Savings Accounts, running the numbers of a friend who chose a similar option to see if they make sense. Surprisingly, they might!
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Welcome to the Friday, November 13, 2009 edition of On the Moneyed Midways! Each week, we bring you the best posts we found among the best of the past week's business and money-related blog carnivals for your weekend reading pleasure! 
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