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Another week of great reads during week. These are entries from blogs I frequent, and I hope you will too (just come back!). I’ve also included various finance/investing carnivals that published my material this week as well as my posts within my network since the last weekly links. This week, I was stuck by the incredibly rebound of several emerging market ETFs exceeding 50% returns YTD.

My Favorite Investing Reads

Think Diversification. Think Simplicity. Think.

FDIC limits, facts and changes

Cash and Bonds are not the same thing.

Nucor stock analysis (I like this company, especially with the recent Buy America provisions wrt steel imports)

Some potentially alarming info about Interoil claims from one of my favorite Fraud Fighters

See how FIFO vs LIFO can change a company’s prospects

Dividends and buybacks in the news

Which index to choose

Questioning current valuations following recent runup

My Favorite Personal Finance Reads

Setting a teen straight with “A Credit Card is NOT your ticket to financial freedom“

How to Avoid Foreclosure

Obama’s uncertainty is killing us and the economy

Opinion on how politicians vilify the rich in order to rally support for tax increases

Multiple Loans? Which order to pay them in

Universal Health Care Pros and Cons

Sunk Cost Fallacy

A First Budget from an anti-budgeter

Kids and Money: Lemonade Stand

Stop enying millionaires

Worth trying to reduce your rent?

10 Ways your Lifestyle can save you money

Within my network at Darwin’s Finance and Everyday Finance

40 Year Mortgages and 50&60. What’s next, 99 year leases?

The next massive blockbuster mimicking the fountain of youth?

All World Market ETF Returns 2009 YTD

Beware those “going out of business” signs and sales

Google stock price manipulation

FREE Sick Days! Says Government - on the back of business dollars

Too late to refinance?

Haverhill Home Staging Complaints - the infomercial may not be all it’s cracked up to be

The week’s hottest double digit ETFs

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