Happy Friday! A collection of my favorites from this week as well as links to two guest posts:
Investing Articles
- Invest? Borrow? Why Not Both? from Bad Money Advice
- Why It’s Worth Your Time to Meet Your Financial Advisors from The Simple Dollar
- Financial Advisors: Swindlers and Leeches from Monevator
Other Money-Related Articles
- Stop Using Your Tax Refund as a Savings Account from MoneyNing
- What to Do with a Windfall from Money Under 30
- Telephone Woes and the IRS from Tax Girl
- How to Choose a Mortgage Lender from Five Cent Nickel
Oblivious Investor on Tour
- Reward for What Risk? at Morningstar Advisor
- How to Start Investing with $1,000 or Less at Debt Free Adventure
Blog Carnivals
- Best of Money Carnival hosted by Money Help for Christians
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Darwin’s Finance
- Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Skilled Investor
- Stock Market Fast Swings hosted by FastSwings.com
- Carnival of Mutual Funds hosted by Beat Mutual Funds
Thanks as always for reading. 
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