Carnival of Personal Finance #3 is online at AllThingsFinancial. Some interesting posts to highlight:
Alphabet Soup, a guide to the different professional designations in finance.
Nickel warns people to think before writing a check in a world where there is a hot black market for personal banking information.
On AllThingsFinancial, JLP teacher us how to calculate annualized rate of return, an important figure for evaluating a stock portfolio among other things.
I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend. I’ve been quite busy and haven’t had as much time on the internet as usual. As a result, things will probably be a little slow on Consumerism Commentary this week.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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Actually, it was me (nickel) that wrote about thinking before you write checks, not FMF… But the link is right.
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http://www.fivecentnickel.com/
Hitting on all cylinders today eh? :)
Of course! I’ve fixed it now. I apologize; it’s Monday morning and I’m still looking for my brain.
By “Monday morning,” I obviously meant “Tuesday morning following a three-day weekend.” Sigh.