It's days like this that makes me regret that I'm one of the six insurance agents in the known universe that doesn't play golf. Oh well...
The Anniversary Edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up, hosted by the folks at Consumerism Commentary (the carnival's founders). It's an especially interesting mix this week, because folks were asked to submit both a "regular" post and a favorite from the past year.
My favorite this week comes from the Holistic Economy blog, with this post about a new type of savings plan called an Individual Development Account. Very interesting.
And this week's Carnival of the Capitalists is hosted by Blog Business World, which collected, and organized, almost 50 posts!
A lot of folks in my industry back the estate tax. Joe Kristan at Roth & Co agrees that it's necessary, but suggests a better model.