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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

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Budgeting and Economics. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. ” FG presents A Tale of Two Brothers posted at Financial God , saying, “One of my favourite books is ‘Economics in One Lesson’, by Henry Hazlitt.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

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The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Little House presents The Five Tool Budgeter posted at Little House in the Valley , saying, “In baseball, a five-tool player is one who excels in some of the game’s major skills: fielding, base running, hitting for power, hitting for contact, and throwing ability. .”

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Totally Money Blog Carnival #18 – 6 Ways to Save Money Edition

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Ramsay presents Borrowing From Your 401k. Among the many benefits afforded to many 401k participants is the ability to borrow funds from the account for personal purposes. Dana presents 5 Frugal Ways To Beat Food Price Inflation. Since IJ is more a believer of Austrian school of economics, he would have to say a resounding yes.