Welcome to the December 19, 2006 edition of festival of investing.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Hapless Home Buyer?s Guide posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

H.S. Ayoub presents Weak U.S. Dollar Good for Biotechs! posted at BioHealth Investor.

Praveen presents My Simple Trading System: My Stock Trading System posted at My Simple Trading System.

Michael K. Dawson presents Trading Without a Mentor is Like Flying Blind posted at The Time and Money Group.

Paul presents Increasing your hourly rate in order to get rich posted at Paul, saying, “When it comes to making more money, a lot of people think about working harder or working more. They equate the amount of money you get out with the amount of effort you put in. But this isn’t really the case.”

My Best Financial Article for 2006

Trent presents Is DELL Cooking the Books? – Stock Market Beat – Our beat is the stock market. Our job is to beat it. posted at Stock Market Beat.

Mister Juggles presents Satan’s Portfolio posted at Long or Short Capital.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents My Stock Portfolio Update posted at The Digerati Life.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Money 101: My Basic Financial Plan posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Sorry for the mixup — I just realized you wanted my best article for the year so perhaps you can use this one instead of the previous one I submitted. Thank you!”

Nina Smith presents Netflix and a Living Wage posted at Queercents, saying, “Netflix pay its workers at its forty-one hubs around the country about $9 per hour. Is this a living wage? And could Netflix afford to pay them more?”

GameProducer.net presents Marketing Research Defined posted at Game Producer.

Dan Hung presents A Simple Breakout and Trend Reversal System posted at The Curious Investor.

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