Welcome everyone to this week’s edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists, one of the oldest and more celebrated carnivals out there, and this week, even though many of us in the US are all fattened up on some turkey, we still have a nice helping of leftovers to get you through the start of yet another regularly scheduled work week.

Enjoy!

1. Free Money Finance presents Six Wise Ways to Spend a Raise.
2. nickel of Five Cent Nickel presents Transferring 403(b) Funds via a 90-24 Transfer.
3. Jason Thomas of Effortless Office presents Seven Secrets Of Success.
4. Ed at Daily Dose of Opimism presents a Google Video of Warren Buffett at the University of Florida.
5. Laurie Bluedorn at The Homeschool Marketer presents A Special Time for Homeschoolers.
6. Jeff Burkey at HedgeFundDomain presents Cost Cutting.
7. David Maister of Passion, People and Principles presents Why Are Some People So Motivated?
8. Wenchypoo of Wisdom from Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket presents The Politician Primer (L-O-N-G).
9. Barry Welford of StayGoLinks presents Walled Gardens - The Walls Keep Tumbling Down.
10. Scott On Money presents Reducing Friction in the Personal Credit Market.
11. About PMI writes about how now that the Democrats are in power in both houses of Congress, they are more likely to make private mortgage insurance tax deductible.
12. Phil for Humanity presents Dear Junk Mail Solicitors.
13. Steve Faber of Debt Free presents Investments That Aren’t – Just The Bad, and The Ugly.
14. Jim Logan presents The Role of Features and Functionality.
15. Trent at Simple Dollar presents Money For Nothing: Putting Money In Your Pocket With Minimal Effort.
16. Declare War on Credit Cards has an article about Getting Your First Credit Card.
17. Super Saver at My Wealth Builder presents My 2006 Year-End Stock Market Assessment.
18. Wayne Hurlbert of Blog Business World pens a post titled Entrepreneur peer support: Ending isolation.
19. Princeton professors Shivaji Sondhi and Michael Cook contribute a guest column at Econbrowser with some new ideas about how to move forward in Iraq.
20. Henry Stern, LUTCF of InsureBlog presents CDHC: Smaller Increases?.
21. cehwiedel at One-Man Band presents Healthcare for the One-Man Band.
22. Leon Gettler over at Sox First has an exclusive interview with Al Gore.
23. Starling David Hunter, who blogs at The Business of America is Business, presents End It Like Beckham.
24. Carmine Coyote charts how Hamburger Management responds to change: the well-worn sets of rude and dismissive phrases its proponents use browbeat their subordinates into remaining quiet about the inefficiencies and stupidities around them.
25. Jack Yoest of Reasoned Audacity presents Rush Limbaugh Does DC for the Fisher House Foundation.
26. Rich of Queercents presents Boycotting Homophobia.
27. Mark at SportsBiz reports that the NHL became the first professional league to sign a contract with YouTube to show video clips of its games the day after they are played and share revenue with YouTube in an undisclosed sharing split.
28. Big Picture Guy presents The Count of Montecristos.
29. David Foster at Photon Courier writes about how the success of on-line grocer FreshDirect provides an interesting contrast to the failure of lavishly-funded Webvan.
30. Brian Gongol explains how people who invest in penny stocks because they received “pump-and-dump” spam may be unwittingly funding terrorism.
31. Rob May of Businesspundit discusses an analysis of a recent study that shows entrepreneurs overestimate their likelihood of success.

JLP at AllThingsFinancial has published the 11th edition and it weighs in at almost twenty submissions. Predictably, top billing goes towards the recent skyrocketing gasoline/oil prices but there are some good articles on popular personal finance topics such as budgeting, debt management, and financial planning. Here are the ones that piqued my interest:

Clutter2Cash has a very interesting article on creating a personal 401(k), for those of you with self-employment income. This is something I might take advantage of in the future since the fees of a personal 401(k) are much higher (with justification).

Dawn at Frugal For Life has joined the “homebuying tips” fray with her own suggestions on tips before making the big purchase. I would argue that the minimum number of years you intend to stay somewhere before you buy should be seven years, not two.

Ironman has created a very helpful hybrid vs. standard car comparison calculator and submitted it this week. It would’ve been awesome if he had listed some common EPA mileage ratings but the calculator is still useful regardless.

With thirteen articles in a short time frame, the first Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by ConsumerismCommentary was a success. Now I’m charged with the responsibility of keeping up the pace with the second Carnival of Personal Finance, which will be published on Monday, June 27th. We are current accepting contributions until 10:00 PM Sunday, June 26th and the Carnival will be published sometime on Monday.

The rules will be the same: nominate one personal finance article from your blog, please do so via this contact form, and the entries will be posted in the order they were received. Any blogger who contributes (and is interested in doing so) will be eligible to host one of the next Carnivals, based on this schedule.

Thanks!