Carnival of the Capitalists - July 10, 2006

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, a weekly roundup of the best business articles posted by bloggers. This edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists is utilizing the CotC hosting template provided by Gongol.com. I hope you like it. I believe it helps keep this large carnival neat and organized. Next week’s Carnival is scheduled for Any Letter.

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Your host today, Fat Pitch Financials, is a value investing and personal finance blog. Fat Pitch Financials also includes a community driven value investing news site called Fat Pitch News. There is also a members only section called Fat Pitch Financials Contributor’s Corner dedicated to finding the best special situation and arbitrage opportunities in the stock market for individual investors. Find out how you too can become a member.

How to Navigate This Edition
Click on the column titles in order to sort this week’s entries by alphabetically by site, post or category.

Site	Post/Essay	Category	Summary	Editor’s Picks
Mine Your Own Business	Say Goodbye to the “Mass Market”		Media is changing; broadcasting is out and “narrowcasting” is in. Mine Your Own Business discusses what this means for your business marketing strategy.
The Business of America is Business	Measuring Globalization		There is a lot of talk about the consequences of globalization but much less on what it is and how it is defined and measured.
Online dating blog	Launching a Dating Site. Essential Steps		Some essentials to consider before starting an online dating site.
InsureBlog	Price Controls		Price controls just don’t work, and when it comes to health insurance, that goes double. Here are just a few of the consequences when it’s tried.
David Maister’s Passion, People and Principles	The Forgiveness Index		David Maister has a theory that super-successful organizations have a forgiveness index that is lower than average, but still well above 0. Sounds reasonable to me.
Free Money Finance	How to Answer Tricky Interview Questions		Some basic suggestions on how to handle interview questions.
MineThatData	Business Review: eBay		Recent financial performance and a precipitous drop in its stock price indicate that eBay may be close to becoming a mature, slower-growth company.
Business & Technology Reinvention	Making New Rules		This Sales VP presents some new rules about sales and meetings.
Et Tu Bloge	NJ Exodus?		This blogger explores the potential impacts of New Jersey’s sales tax increase to 7 percent.
Frugal Wisdom from Wenchypoo’s Warehouse	Is Africa the Next India?		This commentary looks at the potential in investing in Africa.
Trader’s Narrative	Running With the Bulls		Will the recent increase in volume mark the market bottom? I wish it was that easy.
Kicking Over My Traces	Post in Haste		Another reminder to think before you publish something on the Internet.
Stock Market Beat	Oil Inventory		An interesting look at the trends regarding oil inventories.
Experiments in Finance	Proof you should always read a fund’s prospectus before investing		A look at PBW (exotic ETF) and why it’s not what its summary appears to say on Morningstar and Fidelity.
The Buzz Blog	Open Letter to Ben Bernanke		An open letter to the Fed Chief questioning the use of rate hikes to fight inflation and asking for a pause in rate hikes.
Paul’s Tips	The number-one most important fact to understand if you want to get things done		We all have things we want done. Or more precisely, we have things about the world we wish to change, and realize we’ll to put in some effort to do so.
Trizoko: Biz Journal	How to Pitch Your Super-Crazy-Sweet Ideas		Use the seduction of collaboration to sell your ideas.
The Scratching Post	Stop Messing with My Favorite Brands!		New is not always better when it comes to your favorite brands.
Queercents	Mind the Gap		In London, the Underground has signage that reminds commuters to Mind the Gap. There is another gap that figuratively represents the economic disparities among retiring baby boomers.
Direct Response Works	Copy For Your Landing Page Used In B2B Lead Generation and Sales		Your landing page needs to present your prospect overwhelming information necessary to feel comfortable in heeding your call to action.
Bizinformer	Partner with your Customers		Creatively include your customers to make your product better.
Below The Beltway	Corporate Espionage And Corporate Integrity		The recent thwarted conspiracy to steal Coca Cola trade secrets and sell them to Pepsi Co has an upside with regards to business ethics.
Cash Flow Blog	Two Critical Elements Of The Collection Letter		The two important aspects of writing a collection letter include clarity and consequences. (As a value investor, you got to love the name of this blog.)
The Browster Blog	What is an ad?		As users simultaneously become publishers and each other’s viewers, the idea of an advertisement can go from something a corporation pushes, to something displayed by the trusted group or individual publisher instead.
China Law Blog	China’s Golden Cities - The Private Sector Is A Good Thing		An early look at a World Bank study indicates that China’s growing private sector may be producing positive benefits for its cities.
The Coyote Within	Give Yourself Time		Adrian notes that in all the discussions of personal development time is rarely mentioned, yet giving yourself enough time is essential to allow learning and development to take root.
Searchlight Crusade	Some Free Loan Advice About Real Estate Transactions		Some interesting things to keep in mind about real estate loan transactions.
Slow Leadership	Controlling Competition		What happens when the workplace becomes more like a gladiatorial arena than a community of people with common goals?
The Entrepreneurial Mind	When Selling a Business be Realistic, be Informed, and be Prepared		A good basic roadmap to selling a business and things to keep in mind during the process.
The Big Picture	NFP: Another in a long series of disappointments		Employment statistics continue to be weak but that was no surprise to the author of this article.
Execupundit.com	Crabs in a Bucket		Execupundit.com examines how others can bring you down.
InvestorGeeks	Homebuilder Industry Analysis		Peter at InvestorGeeks explains that the Homebuilding Industry is likely to be in for tough times ahead.
Jack Yoest	The Devil Wears Prada and Alan Greenspan: Nuance and Silence		“If you want to command and communicate. Be quiet. Be still.”
Roth & Company Tax Update	Taxing You To Lure And Subsidize Your Competitors		Probably the most galling thing about “tax incentives” is the when you see the state subsidizing a competitor. One business is fed up.
Financial Methods	Prices, Not Piracy		Movie studios are investigating a technique that embeds ’subliminal’ images in movies to foil camcorders while remaining invisible to movie-goers. The larger problem is not piracy, it is pricing.
Centrerion Canadian Politics	Creative Taxing Can Save the Environment		An economics professor weighs in on tax solutions to environmental problems. This is a topic I’m particularly interested in.
MyMoneyBlog	Forming An S-Corporation To Reduce Self-Employment Taxes		A discussion of the tax benefits of S-Corporations.
Sox First	The unfinished business of Ken Lay’s legacy		With Lay dying an innocent man, at least legally speaking, and his death putting the civil claims in doubt, it’s clear there will be no closure on one of America’s biggest corporate frauds which cost 4000 jobs and billions of dollars in shareholder wealth, savings and retirement incomes.
Fire Someone Today	Microsoft’s Mouth Feel		It is hard enough to get people talking about your product. Don’t let your competitor’s name be easier on the tongue. (Great graphic.)
Blog Business World	Marketing: When does it pay?		Discussion of the importance of marketing.
Nubricks.com	Still time to invest in Bulgarian off plan property		A discussion of recent events that are keeping Bulgaria high on the overseas property radar.
Soccer Dad	Government’s entitlement		Are sin taxes good things? Or are they cynical attempts to exploit people’s bad habits?
My Financial Awareness	Retirement Planning – A Marathon or a Sprint?		Should retirement planning be a sprint to retire at 55 while focusing on saving as much as you can or a marathon to retire at 65 where you are able to enjoy life along the way?
Econbrowser	Questions remain about Saudi oil		Econbrowser asks whether Saudi Arabia might be part of the reason for new highs in the price of oil.
SportsBiz	Hedge Fund Fantasy Football		A Portuguese hedge fund invests in soccer players hoping to profit on transfer fees earned when the player is sold to a bigger club.
The Career Intensity Blog	Remove Emotion from Your Decisions		Three quick tips to use when your emotions can cost you money.
Aloys Hosman	How to manage risk management?		Starting a risk management initiative does not mean you actually manage your risks. Manage enterprise risks with an integrated risk management approach.
Interested-Participant	TOPS Hits Bottom in NE Ohio		Blaming the failure on competition, Dutch retailer Ahold announced this week that it is selling 46 TOPS supermarkets in NE Ohio.
BPWrap	Google Supplemental Results - A Word To The Wise		Matt Cutts of Google states an obvious truth. To avoid being archived among all those Google supplemental results, get high-quality links (don’t bother to get low-quality links just for links’ sake).
Big Picture, Small Office	The Tipping Point		Cheap is as cheap does. It seems that the Small Office shows its true measure whenever it comes time to leave the tip. Then everyone seems to find a reason to be the first one to leave.
The Boring Made Dull	Some Thoughts on the Cost of College		A rant on the cost of “liberal arts” education.
The Liberty Papers	Government Regulation And The Housing Market		How government regulations are encouraging the construction of large expensive homes.

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Posted July 10th, 2006 @ 10:30 AM by George
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23 Responses to “Carnival of the Capitalists - July 10, 2006”

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#1

Well done in bringing order to such a wealth of posts. Clearly the blogosphere doesn’t take a summer vacation.

Barry Welford July 10th, 2006 @ 10:40
#2

Wow! That was a fantastic way to do a Carnival. When I do Carnival of the Cats in a few weeks, I think I’ll borrow this format.

K T Cat July 10th, 2006 @ 11:03
#3

Nice job! I think I like the template more each time I see it.

Jay July 10th, 2006 @ 11:47
#4

I really like the “table” format. It’s surprisingly helpful!

Great job…thanx for hosting this week!

hgstern July 10th, 2006 @ 12:11
#5

Wow. Very, very nice format. It took me forever to come up with and layout the Carnival of Investing this week. Nice to have such standardization! Thanks for picking my entry, too.

ricemutt July 10th, 2006 @ 14:17
#6

Thanks for posting my article, I appreciate it!

Kevin Hillstrom July 12th, 2006 @ 0:04
#7

Thank you for including my post.

Mike July 17th, 2006 @ 11:02

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