Greetings to everyone from my internet-free (kind of) vacation. The lack of wireless internet may be bad for my writing, but I’m catching up on reading with my iPhone and what a great week it was in the personal financial blogosphere! Here are some of my favorite articles from this week, you’ll note that there are more than usual. Don’t forget to check out the ABDPBT and ABDPBT Tech versions as well. See you next week!
- Trent at The Simple Dollar reviews Amazon’s “marketplace for work,” Mechanical Turk. Can you earn more than minimum wage there? Find out here.
- Goldman Sachs is everywhere, says The Great American Bubble Machine:
The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.
(Rolling Stone via brip blap). Frank at Bad Money Advice has a well-reasoned retort that’s worth reading as well (as we’ve come to expect).
- Read the July 2009 updates on the net worths of your favorite personal finance bloggers at Suburban Dollar.
- And finally, check out these strategies to curb lifestyle inflation at fivecentnickel. In the wake of Michael Jackson’s death and revelation of his finances, it seems a particularly timely topic.

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