Carnival of the Capitalists

There are many great posts for this week's Carnival of the Capitalists.   I particularly enjoyed:

Breakeven Point Before Real Returns at The Real Returns
Circumventing Late Fee Anger at Businesspundit
Creative Job - Commute Helper at Personal Finance Advice
Eye-tracking shows ad invisibility at SearchProf Weblog

The categories for this week's Carnival are: Investing, Economy, Government, Human Resources (including Personal Productivity), Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Technology

Investing

Moneywise at The Real Returns presents Breakeven Point Before Real Returns  .  If you do not get 5% return from your investment every year, you are actually losing money.

Steve Faber presents Terrorist Attack Effects on the Stock Market posted at Debt Free.

Steve reviews the effect of terrorist attacks on the Dow.  The effect on the market is lackluster although the 9/11 attacks are a clear outlier in the data set.

RJH Adams at Capital Chronicle presents Ben Bernanke - inflation nutter?   Is Ben Bernanke, self-proclaimed inflation targeter, going to overdo interest rate rises and kill economic growth? Worse, is stagflation bound to be the result?

Joshua Sharf at View From a Height presents The Morningstar Empire Strikes Back... . Morningstar responds, trying to defend their Style Boxes.  In doing so, they cede the main point, and swing and miss on the others.

Chris Welch presents TD Ameritrade Has Most Funds Available posted at InvestorGeeks.   Using Morningstar, Chris of InvestorGeeks tallies the number of mutual funds offered by major discount brokerages.  He discovers that TD Ameritrade has the most funds available for their clients; T.Rowe Price the least.

Tom Hanna at Financial Options presents The Week Ahead: Your Financial Road Map for June 26 to 30, 2006.   A rundown of the upcoming week's financial events including US and international economic indicators, US Treasury security auctions and announcements and a few select earnings announcements. Economic indicator results will be linked to the post as they become available.

Nina Smith at Queercents presents Uninterrupted Prosperity. 

Nina cites a study that found, over a 22-year period, only 13% of wealthy families were able to maintain their financial status.  One factor was a lack of diversification.  So it seems that many of the wealthy are under-diversified while more-average investors are over-diversified.

Leon Gettler at Sox First presents The shareholders are revolting.  If the 2006 annual meeting was unpleasant for managers, next year's could be far worse. A record number of shareholder resolutions were on file for this year and they were mainly in three areas: global warming, toxins and political contributions. There is also growing support for majority voting in director elections.

Andrew Fife at Entrepreneurship Blog presents My Top 10 VC Bloggers  . Andrew Fife's opinion of the top VC blogs for entrepreneurs on the web.  Not necessarily the most famous VCs blogging but those offering the most insight to entrepreneurs attempting to start new businesses and raise capital.

Economy

Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade presents The Pin That Pops the Housing Bubble?. 

Rob at Businesspundit presents Circumventing Late Fee Anger  . A story about the unique way that one doctor's office gets people to pay late fees without being angry about it.

James Hamilton at Econbrowser presents EPA Report on Boutique Fuels. Hundreds of newspapers last week summarized an EPA report on boutique fuels that was released on Friday. Econbrowser notes that almost all of these stories were based on a quote that does not in fact appear in the report, and claims that the stories grossly mischaracterized both the conclusions of the EPA report and the issues of boutique fuels.

Jonathan at MyMoneyBlog presents Be Careful of 0% Financing At Retail Stores

frugal presents In Remembrance of a First-Rated Economist: Doug Gillespie posted at My 1st Million At 33.

Government

Joe Kristan at Roth & Company Tax Update presents IDED: The More You Spend, The More You Save. How targeted state economic development tax credits are like department store ads.

Wenchypoo at Frugal Wisdom from Wenchypoo's Warehouse presents Why Bono and Angelina are Spinning Their Wheels, or the Myth of Third World Aid.  This article explains how nobody benefits when celebrities get involved in charity causes.

Bob Vineyard, CLU presents Insure Montana posted at InsureBlog.   Montana tries to fund coverage for the uninsured by way of a cigarette tax. Do the numbers really smoke?

Steve Faber presents Tax Cuts - They Cost You Money???? posted at Debt Free.

Steve notes that speaking of how much tax cuts cost the government is backwards.  Taxes cost money, tax cuts save money. 

Neal Phenes at Et Tu Bloge presents EU Unemployed Youth.  Back to the economic status of Europe.

Boring Made Dull offers an excellent perspective of The War on Wal*Mart posted at The Boring Made Dull.

Human Resources / Personal Productivity

Michael Wade at Execupundit.com presents The Job Applicant. Execupundit.com provides a jarring self-assessment for those who are candid about their selection standards.

Jeffrey Strain at Personal Finance Advice presents Creative Job - Commute Helper.  Creative way to make a living by simply sitting in a car. 

Deborah Brown presents You Can't Tell A Book by its Cover posted at Bizinformer.

Adrian Savage at The Coyote Within presents Consequences . Adrian Savage explores the processes of inner change and shows that Old Habits + Old Thinking + Short-term Viewpoint = Predictable Consequences.

Carmine Coyote at Slow Leadership presents Business Fundamentalism, One-track Minds and Magic Bullets  . Carmine Coyote explains that many organizations, and the executives who direct them, suffer from one-track minds, and why this leads to a dangerous state of business fundamentalism

Peter Kua presents 19 Crème de la Crème Success Principles posted at RadicalHop.com by Peter Kua: Light Speed Personal Development.

David Daniels at Business & Technology Reinvention presents Fly Hungry  . Why flying without the perks is good business.

Victor Fam at Towards Better Life presents The Mindset for Saving

FMF at Free Money Finance presents College is Worth the Expense details why college is one of the best investments you can make.

Scott Young at Scott H Young - Get the most out of your life! presents The Secret to Productivity.  We all want to be more productive whether it is for our work or for the work of our employees.  This article explores perhaps the most powerful motivator for productive work, enjoyment!

Peter Kua offers 19 Steps to Power Negotiations - Part 2 and 19 Steps to Power Negotiations - Part 3 posted at RadicalHop.com by Peter Kua: Light Speed Personal Development.

Matt Inglot presents How to Successfully Get Work Done in a Home Based Business posted at Matt Inglot.   

It's a good read for those that work at home even without a home based business.

Ricemutt at Experiments in Finance presents Can you talk the talk?

Steve Mertz at Sales Presentation Training presents Public Speaking Tip: I Want to See Your Eyes-Not your Back

Entrepreneurship

Tam Hanna at TamsPalm-the Palm OS Blog presents On entering overfilled market sectors. Tam Hanna presents On entering overfilled market sectors posted at TamsPalm-the Palm OS Blog.

Marcus Markou presents I Bought The Business - Online Retail posted at Business Opportunities Blog (BOB).  Entrepreneur Chirin Gill and his business partner were at university together. It was during this time that they decided to buy a business. Interview by Jo Dalton

David Maister presents Service Line Diversification posted at David Maister's Passion, People and Principles.

Steve Manning presents Naming exposed: naming a business, product or service posted at Snark Hunting.

Tore O. at Money Matador presents How to hire a worker through Craigslist.org.  My experience of hiring a part time employee through posting an ad at craigslist.org

Anita Campbell presents The Little Detail that Matters for Small Retailers posted at Small Business Trends.   Consumers react strongly to dirty restrooms -- and we all talk about how awful they are. Why is it that no one ever tells the business owner what a problem they are? This post by guest blogger John Wyckoff muses on the topic.

Marketing

Yvonne DiVita at Lip-sticking presents Your Mission, Should You Accept It - Is to Shop". Marketing to women requires a little bit of investigative reporting. Find out who you're marketing to - where she works and plays - if you want her to buy from you.

Jim Logan presents The Body Of A Successful Sales Letter - Benefits, Difference And Reason To Believe posted at Direct Response Works.

Kevin Hillstrom at MineThatData presents Online Marketing and Direct Marketing. Ever wonder where a large chunk of your disposable income goes?  Maybe it goes to Bank of America.

Mark A. Rayner presents Eye-tracking shows ad invisibility posted at SearchProf Weblog.

cehwiedel at Kicking Over My Traces presents Web 2.0 Maturing. 

David St Lawrence at Ripples: post-corporate adventures presents Why buy locally, when you can get things cheaper from overseas?.  It's really simple. When you buy directly from an artisan or from a farmer, there is a sense of connection that matters. You have made a connection between yourself and another human being with a meaningful transaction.

Steven Silvers presents The inevitable death of product placements. posted at Scatterbox at stevensilvers.com.  The fact is that product placements and “paid media” are just advertisements pretending to not be advertisements. The more they saturate every nook and cranny of our information culture, the more certain that social responses will negate much of their marketing value.

A Samuel at New Properties Blog presents Buying property abroad the male female perspective

Jack Yoest presents Sales: Never Give Up vs Never Going to Happen posted at Jack Yoest.   Your Business Blogger often advises sales guys on peddling products, programs, services. Tangibles and intangibles. We know Winston Churchill's 1941 quote to Never never never give up. And in 1813, Captain James Lawrence said, "Boys, Don't give up the ship." The American Way to Never Say Die. (Well, Churchill was half American.) So, three options: ...

Big Picture Guy at Big Picture, Small Office presents Pack Rats.  The FTC shows how to achieve truth in advertising.  Compostable in California Municipal Yard Trimming Composting Facilities surprisingly does not work.  Those heading up the Think Green campaign have much to learn.

Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World presents E-mail newsletters: Inbox marketing power.  Your e-mail inbox probably receives several of them each day. Some you open and read, while others are deleted, without a second thought. They are e-mail newsletters, and they remain one of the best, but often most misused marketing tools available, for the internet marketer.

Technology

Trent presents Stock Market Beat » Blog Archive » Techdirt: Should We Welcome Microsoft’s ‘Predatory’ Pricing? posted at Stock Market Beat.

Dave Tufte at voluntaryXchange presents Ray Panko On Spreadsheets .  Most business people think spreadsheets don't make mistakes.  They don't too often, but their users make them all the time.

Wordlab presents Big Beer Brew Blog posted at Wordlab.  Beer industry giants, like Anheuser-Busch, Miller, InBev, and Molson Coors, may have big budgets for advertising, but you can't beat the craft brewers for creative naming and branding -- and beer blogging.

Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion presents UMass Study Identifies the Traits of Successful Bloggers.

Pawel Brodzinski at Software Project Management presents Quality of Software and Volume of Sales

David Foster at Photon Courier presents A Different Approach. For delivery vehicles, which have frequent stops, hybrid power technologies offer a potential fuel savings of 60% or better. Hybrids based on a hydraulic rather than an electrical approach may have advantages for heavy trucks and buses.

Current Events

Brian Gongol at Gongol.com presents Predicting the Outcome of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis . Using economics and game theory, we can reasonably predict the outcome of the North Korean nuclear standoff.

Starling presents A Price on His Head: The Economic Impact of Zarqawi's Demise posted at The Business of America is Business.

Wenchypoo at Frugal Wisdom from Wenchypoo's Warehouse presents Broken Borders, Violated Privacy, Personal Security, and the Questionable Need for Citizenship

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Next week's host:  MedSim: The Blog

© 2006 Michael Cale

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