Welcome to this Friday, December 3, 2010 edition of On the Moneyed Midways, your one-stop shop for catching up with the best of the past week's money and business-related blog carnivals!
Is there a compelling reason why you shouldn't invest in gold you can hold? Should procedures that aren't medically necessary be mandated to be covered under your health insurance? And just what can a $2,000 deductible buy after a hail storm?
The answers to these questions, and The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere!, follow immediately below - thank you for taking time out of your weekend to join us today!...
| On the Moneyed Midways for December 3, 2010 | |||
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| Carnival | Post | Blog | Comments |
| Best of Money | Why I Think Gold Is a Loser Investment | Free Money Finance | Can you really make money buying, holding, then selling gold? FMF takes on conventional wisdom and finds that the returns on selling gold you physically hold aren't anywhere as near as shiny as investors might hope. Absolutely essential reading! |
| Carnival of Debt Reduction | November 26 - Baby Step 2 Update | Six Figures And Broke | Formerbigspender is referring to Dave Ramsey's Baby Step 2, in which he has succeeded in paying down over half of the $70,744.32 he started the year off in the debt hole.... |
| Carnival of Personal Finance | How to Save Hundreds of Dollars By Taking a Day Off Work | ChristianPF | Sign us up for this plan! Craig Ford makes a solid argument in favor of forgoing a day's pay at work for the sake of giving yourself the time you need to research and shop around where major financial transactions are involved! The Best Post of the Week, Anywhere! |
| Cavalcade of Risk | Medical Necessity vs (Stupid) Mandates | Insureblog | Hank Stern ventures into truly dangerous territory in taking on the thinking that mandated coverage for contraception devices in health insurance plans, even though they fail to meet the basic test of medical necessity. |
| Festival of Frugality | The Easiest Way to Save Money on Food - Eliminate Waste | Wisdom from Wenchypoo's Mental Wastebasket | Ever wonder how much money you might save if you were better about not wasting food? Wenchy offers her insights after considering an article by Saving Advice. |
| Carnival of Money Stories | THIS Is a Disaster? More News from the Insurance Front | Funny About Money | Funny About Money's just found out that for the cost of a $2,000 deductible following a large hail storm, he's going to get $10-15,000 worth of home improvements! |
OMM's Running Index for 2010
Presented in reverse chronological order....
- On the Moneyed Midways - December 3, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 26, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 19, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 12, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - November 5, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 30, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 22, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 15, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 8, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - October 1, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 24, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 17, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 10, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - September 3, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 27, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 20, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 13, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - August 6, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 30, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 23, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 16, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 9, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - July 3, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 25, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 18, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 11, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - June 4, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 28, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 21, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 14, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - May 7, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 30, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 23, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 16, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 9, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - April 2, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 26, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 19, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 12, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - March 5, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 26, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 19, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 13, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - February 5, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 29, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 23, 2010
- On the Moneyed Midways - January 15, 2010