Roundup and Link Love: New Site I’m Writing For Edition

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I’ve been asked to write for FiLife: Your Financial Lifeline. It’s a blog site developed in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and is centered on helping you make great decisions with your personal finances (much like The Wisdom Journal!). So far, two of my articles have been published:

• Planning Your Next Financial Disaster?
• SEO (Supercharge Employment Opportunities) for Your Resume

I’ll be contributing at least once per week so stop by and check it out. It has a lot of great writers and a lot of fantastic features.

From their “About” page:

An IAC/Dow Jones joint venture, FiLife is a personal finance web community offering members the chance to find and review personal finance products, ask and answer money questions, and use smart tools to simplify financial decisions. FiLife features the best personal finance stories from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Barron’s, as well as our own original stories and packages.

FiLife offers an extensive listing of financial products, services and companies to rate and review. And, for tough money questions, FiLife provides easy-to-use product guides and open forums for questions and answers. Throughout the site, FiLife Experts, experienced professionals in money management, mortgages, taxes, credit and more, bring their own knowledge.

The Fab Five

The Best Business Opportunity Can Be the One You Don’t Take @ Cash Money Life. Patrick makes the decision to pass on a business opportunity that had fantastic potential. Read this article to find out why.

The New Age of Thrift @ Get Rich Slowly. JD examines all the media hullabaloo about frugality. Funny how thriftiness has made such a strong comeback, but there are those who are fighting against it!

A Tribute To Jack Kemp @ Mises. “He had read Mises and Hayek (Austrian School economists), and believed in the idea of freedom. His mistake was in thinking that freedom was something granted by the right configuration of government policy, not something that exists in the absence of government policy. Naïvely did he choose the arena of politics to work out his intellectual passions but the political world was not kind to him, no matter how kind he was to it.”

Fleeting Wants Vs Genuine Wants @ Green Panda Treehouse. Think you know the difference? Are you sure?

Public Reaction to The Credit Cardholders Bill Of Rights @ Consumerism Commentary. Looks like the politicians are pretty much in line with what the public wants. I always wonder though, what are we not being told? What loopholes are factored into this legislation? What surprises are just around the bend for those carrying a balance and those who don’t?

Best of the Rest

Breaking Free From Materialism @ Bible Money Matters

Using the Culture of Immediacy to Slow Your Life Down @ On Simplicity

What Does Frugal Mean To You? @ Quest for Four Pillars

The Dangers of Promotional 0% Interest Rate Credit Card Balance Transfers @ Prime Time Money

How To Haggle: More Tips On Haggling @ Five Cent Nickel