Finance Picks: Here’s Another Reason To Raise Your Credit Score

For your reading pleasure, here are some links from hot spots around the blogosphere:

The Carnival of Personal Finance #98 is being hosted at We’re In Debt this week, where I found the following articles of interest.

Ask Mr Credit Card describes how Credit Scores and Insurance Rates are tied. More reason for us to protect our credit scores and keep them close.

The Simple Dollar tackles a scenario brought up by one of his readers: We Share A Joint Account… But I Don’t Trust My Partner’s Spending Habits. He suggests a few solutions to a thorny dilemma that happens often, but it does take a lot of maturity to successfully address conflict.

Grad Money Matters gives us a huge exposition on mortgages with Should You Get a 40 (or 50) Year Mortgage? The biggest argument I have against such a long term mortgage is the obvious: having to owe something in my retirement years.

My Wealth Builder investigates something in his family’s past with The Value Of My Parent’s First House. It’s one way to look at how the real estate market has performed.

Equity Scout has come up with a really cool way to analyze the real estate vs stocks argument I had discussed earlier with If You Invested One Dollar :: Real Estate vs. Stocks. Here’s where we actually see a comparison of the rates of return of these investments based on an a simplified example.

Clever Dude has this reminder: Fixing Your Money Mistakes: Be Sure To Insure. I was about to give my own spiel about insurance with a nifty list on the subject, but I guess he’s beaten me to it! Well, I might still try to cover the topic at a later point.

My Two Dollars also shares some good advice in Do What You Love And The Money Will Come, which is the entrepreneur’s mantra — for many a risk-taking sort out there!

Well guess what. I just realized that I enjoyed the carnival so much that I ended up replicating a bit of it here!

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