Taxes
Taxgirl discusses Larry Flynt’s request for a bailout for the adult entertainment industry. It’s a pretty interesting article, and her take on it isn’t quite what you’d expect.
Two posts from my tax blog: How do I calculate my tax refund?
Alternative Investments
Monevator discusses his results with peer-to-peer lending. (8-10% returns aren’t bad!)
General Personal Finance
Own the Dollar shares a survey showing average balances in retirement accounts for people in various age brackets. It can be fun to see how you measure up. [Noteworthy: The data is from the end of 2007, so make sure to adjust your account upward by about 40% when making comparisons. 
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MoneyNing talks about personal finance toilet training. Love the analogy.
Charitable Giving
Yielding Wealth points us to Donation Dashboard, a site that quizzes you about your interests and creates a customized giving portfolio for you. Very cool idea!
Free Money Finance is hosting a Personal Finance March Madness contest for bloggers. FMF will give almost $1,000 away to charities chosen by the top 4 contestants.
Investing
All Financial Matters asks how long it will take to get even after this year’s losses.
Amateur Asset Allocator provides his take on the three best mutual funds for your taxable accounts (which face some very different issues from your IRA/401k).
Happy Friday. 
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Thanks for including my post on Donation Dashboard in your weekend reading. I also liked Taxgirl’s article, btw. Great stuff.
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