Carnival Round Up - April - Week #4!

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Welcome to the carnival round up for the last week of April. Gosh it was a great week of publishing by FIRE Finance at the various carnivals.

Every couple of weeks a new carnival is taking birth and it is fun to explore them. This week we have a new format for the carnival round-up. Hope you enjoy it.

Our Publications' Card

• Apr 23: Carnival Of Personal Finance #97
• Investing - Which Stock Market Indexes to Choose?

• Apr 23: Investor Blog Network Festival #5
  
• Top Dozen 6 Month CDs - April 2007

• Apr 26: Carnival of Ethics, Values & Personal Finance #8
• Beware of TripRewards - Account Closed Silently!

• Apr 28: Carnival Of Credit Cards #11
• $50 Bonus Money From Bank Of America Visa Credit Card!

• Apr 30: Carnival of Budgeting #3
• Hertz Car Rental Discount Coupons!

Our Favorites From Various Carnivals and Publications

• Breaking the Shackles of the 9 to 5 presents Anatomy of a Stock Trade: Entry Techniques

• My Wealth Builder presents The Difference Between Risk and Fear.

• Paula presents WWYD: Errors on the Dining Bill, saying, “In this week’s What Would You Do series at Queercents, Paula asks: When you go out for dinner do you review the details when the server brings the check or do you assume it is right? Do you do a quick “ballpark glance” or do you look at each Dining Billitem one at a time and do the math? Would you bring it to the server’s attention if there were an error (especially if that error was in your favor)?”

• Donald Latumahina presents 5 Practical Steps to Start Learning Finance and Business.

• Tushar Mathur presents 22 ways to build an emergency fund.

• Grad Money Matters presents Attitudes Towards Debt, Bills and Credit Card Arbitrage. Everyone has heard about making money using credit card arbitrage....

• Joshua Dorkin presents Boycott Chase Bank and Learn What Not to Do In Customer Service. Chase has established a policy where they send away people who aren’t happy with their service. There is no attempt to rectify the situation. They just want you, the problem, to get lost. Our Note: We too had a horrible experience with Chase's Customer Service which cost us hundreds of dollars.

• Shamelle presents Make Money, Not Excuses! In spite of salary increments/personal profits, will what we make, ever be enough for us?

• No Credit Needed explains the evolution of his emergency fund. Emergency funds are absolutely necessary if you plan to live without credit as unexpected expenses will pop up from time to time.

Well that is it folks for this Sunday. We shall be back with our concise format of Carnival Roundup next week. Meanwhile thanks to all who made these Carnivals & Festivals happen in the personal finance blogosphere. Have a great week ahead!

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