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This is a guest post by The Skilled Investor – A great source for Personal Finance, Investment Management, and Financial Planning Articles. Welcome to the November 20, 2009 Edition #116 of the Carnival of Financial Planning. The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. ...

The better posts from fellow bloggers this past week include: The Financial Fallacy of Patterns, Causation & Correlation @ The Financial Philosopher Great post. The problem with patterns runs even deeper. Even if a pattern has been spotted it says nothing as to the related causality. Correlation is the bane of many of the social [...]

The finance carnivals were, as usual, very productive. I’d like to note the following two: Carnival of Personal Finance: The House of Rose Edition @ Good Financial Cents The 98th Carnival of Finanical Planning @ Living Almost Large Other great posts of the past week include the following: Discouraging News about SP 500 @ The [...]

The 90th Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories Hosted @ The Personal Financier Merry Christmas Welcome readers to this edition of the carnival of money stories hosted here, at the personal financier. This December the three dominant monotheistic religions are celebrating their holidays and I thought it would be appropriate to use it as [...]

The customary weekly roundup I really thought it would take more time to crash and burn again (How to Recognize a Bull Trap). The Dow had shed another 733 points in what I can only describe as indescribable. I didn’t expect wall-street to get all fidgety this fast. Some of the financial reports published by [...]

Anyone else have that strange feeling a tsunami heading our way while we’re idling on the beach? A discussion on the relation between the financial markets and the real economy. The image seems fitting. The earthquake caused by the stock markets in the heart of the financial ocean will most likely unleash a tsunami that [...]

The customary weekly roundup It’s been a while since my last roundup. I’ve been trying my best to devote what free time I have to keep posting to the Personal Financier. I hope you find my posts to be at an adequate level. I’ve told you all about my new job (which takes about 65 [...]

I thought quite hard about what could serve as a good theme for this edition of The Carnival of Personal Finance hosted here at The Personal Financier. I hope you’ll enjoy the theme I chose at the end. With over (what seemed to be) one million submissions I can proudly say I enjoyed hosting the [...]