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Welcome to this week’s Best of Money Carnival.  The maintainer of this carnival leaves it up to the host to pick the top ten submissions from the posts for that week.  In similar vein to the last Best of Money carnival I hosted I’ll read off the top ten and say why I liked the post.  Settling on a best post was difficult.  All of these post are great!

Here we go:

• (#10) Wallet Blog discusses credit cards without a present limit.  The ramifications of these kinds of cards was educational.
• (#9) Dough Roller appears to have gone off the deep end a bit talking about alien abduction insurance, but it’s a clever way to broach an interesting, and possibly important, personal finance topic.
• (#8) The Digerati Life gives some out-of-the-box retirement income strategies.  Her articles are always well-written and well-organized so it’s hard to turn this one down for the top ten.
• (#7) Money Help for Christians questions the investing advice of debt reduction icon Dave Ramsey.  I’ve done my own share of questioning his facts on investment and the like, and there’s some good discussion in Craig’s article.
• (#6) A guest poster on Free Money Finance poses the question: Why should successful corporate employees not start a side business? I enjoyed reading this post because I almost categorically recommend that people start up a side business.  It was enlightening to hear a different point of view.
• (#5) Canadian Personal Finance Blog discusses some gifts that you shouldn’t give your kids, ever.  I like this post if for no other reason than the strong opinions he expresses.  A few I’m not quite sure I’m on the same side as Big Cajun Man but it would be boring if we all agreed, wouldn’t it?
• (#4) Balance Junkie likens investors and the market to Charlie Brown and Lucy.  I don’t follow football much, but this football play is pretty easy to understand.
• (#3) Free From Broke explains how LIFE screws up your budget.  LIFE is an acronym.  Neat tie-in to four budget busters.
• (#2) Saving Money Today weighs in with a samurai’s guide to personal finance.  I like the broad feel of the topics in this post.  They’re timely.

And the #1 post this week, again reached by tough decision, is:

• (#1) Provident Planning is saying that a 3- to 6-month emergency fund rule is stupid?  Paul has a point to make, and it’s not that he’s against building up an emergency fund.  A thoughtful post.

Please check these great posts out.  Have a great week!

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