Carnivals
- Check out the 320th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance at Canadian Finance Blog! Our article, "On Automatic Investments... and Coming Up Short", found its way into the Carnival!
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- Now that a framework is in place to increase the debt-ceiling, I'd like to highlight an article by Thomas Sowell on the proceedings. Key quote: "The one thing that the national debt-ceiling has never done is to put a ceiling on the rising national debt." Which is true - Congress can just increase the limit when spending comes close, haha.
- The recession did raise unemployment rates among the 65+ crowd. Check out this article at Casey Mulligan's Supply and Demand.
- What is safe to invest in nowadays? Gold, obviously, yen, a little less obviously, and... peanut butter? Check out the stats!
- Go check out "Wall Street Plummets on Debt Fears" over on our top commenter Bret's blog... I share his sentiments on Warren Buffet, as well as some sort of Constitutional amendment on the national budget.
- Recently, a few quarters of US GDP growth were adjusted downward. Here's a smattering of economist reactions aggregated by the WSJ.
