Welcome to the Ninth Carnival of Personal Finance! This week we have seventeen articles from all corners of the personal finance blogosphere. Topics range from a commentary on flexible spending accounts to a emergency funds to even one about getting yourself organized. There’s something for everyone in this Carnival. For those of you new to these Carnivals, read about this one and this schedule of past and future personal finance carnivals. (I’d also like to thank Glenn Reynolds and Instapundit for the continued support of our humble Carnival, and TLLB’s ÜberCarnival)

Enjoy all seventeen articles this week!

(Click to continue reading…)

The seventh edition is available at In Cash Flow We Trust (great name!). Here are the ones I think you really shouldn’t miss:

Moneywise (The Real Returns) has a good brief article doing the math on how you’re losing money when you invest in some treasuries when you take into account taxes and inflation. This sort of thinking is critical in investing because people typically don’t take into account inflation when they make decisions.

While Maryland isn’t on the list, Nickel has a comprehensive list of the upcoming tax-holidays including what is exempt. It’s the most explanatory one I’ve seen out there.

In a throwback to my psychology classes, Dawn talks about store layouts (According to Real Simple Magazine) and it’s a definite read for those of you pocket psychologists.

Welcome to Blueprint for Financial Prosperity and the second Carnival of Personal Finance! Started last week by the esteemed Flexo at Consumerism Commentary, this Carnival is designed to highlight the cream of the crop of articles published by your favorite personal finance bloggers this past week. To hear Flexo’s words and his introduction, read this entry. For a future schedule of the Carnivals and their hosts, read this entry. While this article has been published, we are still taking submissions until midnight tonight (Monday) and add them as they come in, so if you were on vacation this weekend and want to put in your post, let me know. Thanks!

Flexo from Consumerism Commentary, site of the first Carnival of Personal Finance, crosses the wire first with his article on Eminent Domain Rules Officially Changed. It’s been big news these days with the recent 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court effectively expanding the rules under which eminent domain can be exercised. It’s scary and you should read this article.

(Click to continue reading…)

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!