A big thank-you to Gather Little By Little for hosting this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction!  Two posts on student debt caught his eye and rose to the top:

• Art of the Coupon presents emotes with a law student’s lament.
• Tough Money Love calls the college student debt machine a national disgrace.

Please check out the carnival for the rest of the great posts, all of which are close to topic this week.

• Welcome to the Carnival for this week Here are this week's posts on the topic of debt reduction: Debt Reduction Formula calls consumer debt the worst kind of debt. Personal Finances, Budgeting, and Saving Money discusses snowballs and credit cards. Studenomics explains how to avoid credit card fees. Sun's Financial Diary tells us about what a household......
• Being Frugal has posted Carnival 115 Lynnae over at Being Frugal has posted the brightly-lit Holiday World Tour Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction! There's a debt reduction lesson, along with several relevant posts, at each of the stops on the tour:  recognizing the problem, making a plan, make more and spend less, find support,......

• Student Loan Debt Cripples Recent College Grad & Prompts Shocking Confession! Student loan debt suffocates college grads before they even earn their first paycheck. Recent college grad Hernan Castillo confesses, " Every day I wish I had never gone to college...it has been the biggest mistake of my life!" MSNBC's award-winning journalist Bob Sullivan does it again! This time, Bob exposes......
• Economic Hard Truth Week in Review - Bad News Overload Edition To be honest, Mr. ToughMoneyLove is mentally fatigued from the avalanche of economic data and political news this past week, most of it negative.  I am particularly disappointed that any lift in the markets that should have been caused by passage of the "rescue bill" on Friday was overwhelmed by......