The Spam Free Investing And Personal Finance Carnival #3
posted on: 2010-01-13 09:47:29 by Soo-Young
tags: carnival

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Welcome to the 3rd Spam Free Investing And Personal Finance Blog Carnival! If you're new to this carnival, my main goal with this carnival is to post the most helpful and spam free articles from around the blogosphere. This means you won't find any articles pressuring you to buy anything or sign up for anything, these links will be safe! Without any further ado, here are the links:

The Weakonomist presents Poker Face: The Card Game Visa Is Playing With Your Money posted at Weakonomics, The Weakonomist summarizes an excellent article about the credit card industry that was published in the NY Times a week ago.

Charles presents Goals For 2010 posted at The Kirk Report, If you're interested in learning the goals of a professional stock trader, check out Charles' goals for 2010. No matter where you are in your investing journey, these goals are all worth having yourself.

Lazy Man and Money presents Is Investing Without Goals Like Golfing without a Putter? posted at Lazy Man and Money, Lazy Man furthers the golf investment analogy by comparing investments to golf clubs. Drivers are less accurate, but can take you further, similar to how risky investments can have high returns, but greater uncertainty. On the other hand, putters are more accurate, but won't take you very far, similar to how conservative investments have lower returns, but less volatility.

Jeff Williamson presents Beginners Guide To Investing Online posted at Investing Online for Beginners, Jeff posted an excellent primer to investing in stocks online. If you're just starting out, this post is filled with a lot of great information.

Lovelymary presents 100 Inspiring Personal Finance Posts for the New Year posted at Accounting Degree.com, Mary continues the new year's trend with an excellent and comprehensive list to help you with your finances in 2010. I would highly recommend checking out this blog post as it covers a great breadth of topics.

Arthur Pledger presents Welcome to Wall Street Part 4 posted at World Domination with Arthur Pledger, Arthur writes a great introduction to investing in his Welcome to Wall Street Series. In Part 4, he talks about how to use government treasuries and international investments to reach greater investing success.

CreditCardAssist presents Credit Unions Provide Credit Card Alternative for Consumers posted at Credit Card Assist, Recently, I've noticed an anti big bank movement amongst the general online community. With the enormous cost of the financial bailout, it makes a lot of sense that people are looking for banking alternatives, and credit unions keep coming up as a very viable alternatives.

Dorian Wales presents The Dangers of Excess Frugality – Budgeting and Balanced Living posted at The Personal Financier, Dorian writes an excellent blog post about the balance between spending and saving and why it's so important not to slip into a life of excess frugality. I can really relate to this post because for the majority of my life, my financial habits were all taken from my extremely frugal father. I was probably the stingiest person in the world, and saved all of my money, but I didn't have any financial goals, and I definitely sacrificed my present for my future. If you're someone who holds on to every penny, I'd recommend reading this article.

Big Cajun Man presents Personal Finance Resolutions for the New Year? posted at Canadian Personal Finance Blog, BCM gives some good starting points for setting new year's resolutions in 2010. If you have the desire to reshape your finances in 2010, head over to Canadian Personal Finance Blog for some ideas.