carnivals are up

I’ve been included in a few carnivals this week.
First up, the carnival of personal finance hosted by advanced personal finance. The best posts are:

when just enough is good enough @ growing up, finding the happy medium between paying off debt and living
would you accept a loan from a friend? @ college of cash, I think [...]

recognising pressure

This post was inspired by cleverdude’s currently running series Examining Motives.
I have several Muslim friends. Some are devout, they pray five times a day and have made the Hajj. Others are observant, they don’t drink alcohol and they attend mosques on holy days. Yet others are almost entirely unobservant, they drink alcohol and live with [...]

bonds and gilts

Bonds and gilts (some times known as fixed interest securities) are ways to lend money. There are essentially two entities that you can lend money to - governments and companies. In the UK loans to governments are called gilts and loans to companies are called bonds. In return for lending your money, the government or [...]