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.

• 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,......
• Carnival #100 highlights I promised to comment on the posts for Carnival of Debt Reduction #100 that caught my attention, and here they are.  I'm partial to the personal debt reduction stories mostly, since those were the kinds of posts I envisioned when I started the carnival up nearly two years ago:We're in......

• Roundup - Tis the Season To go shopping, hang out with friends, gather families, share food, bring laughter, and build memories. Happy Holidays! Banking, Credit, and Debt Credit Karma writes How Does Bankruptcy Affect Your Credit? The Sun's Financial Diary posts How to Use Your Credit Card without Going in Debt. The Consumerist with How......
• Opinions On Student Loan Debt Awhile back I read an article about student loan debt from Yahoo! finance and saved it as an article to re-read and write about. The article starts out with a horror story about a master's student who had $140,000 in student loans and only managed to find a job paying......