I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve such great help.  I tweeted (offhandedly) that I had two carnivals to put together this week, and Simply Forties stepped up on Saturday to put on this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction.  For those of you who have hosted a blog carnival before, you know that it’s a fair amount of work, so I’m usually reluctant to throw that at anyone without at least a week’s notice.  But she did a great job on very short notice!

Please check out this week’s Carnival at Simply Forties!

• Debt Sucks has posted the Carnival Thanks go out to Debt Sucks for hosting this week's Carnival of Debt Reduction! Here are his picks for this week: My Wealth Builder has achieved zero debt -- including the mortgage! Congratulations! Free Money Finance discusses to five ways to use credit cards wisely. The Digerati Life posted some......
• Paid Twice has posted the Carnival Thanks to I've Paid For This Twice Already for putting together a great Snowflake Edition Carnival of Debt Reduction!  Paid Twice has started a new website called SnowflakeRevolution.com which is designed to be a "compendium of snowflaking blogs" -- the kinds of snowflakes that build up to be debt snowballs.......

• Why Do We Keep Bailing Out AIG? With the Almost Insolvent Group setting the record for the worst quarterly loss in the history of corporations ($62 billion) and the resulting fourth bailout of the struggling company, many are asking "Why did we keep bailing out AIG?" Why keep throwing good money after bad?  Let them go under......
• An Investment Pyramid: A Solid Foundation This week, I'm going to share my thoughts on creating an investment pyramid for the rest of the week. Because nothing makes investing fun like adding pyramids; if it works for nutrition, it should work for money-management! All this week, we're going to be building an investment pyramid. Building on......