Weekly Round Up- CNBC On The Money

On The Money

So what was the big surprise of the week?  Wednesday morning after arriving to the office, I do my usual routine of checking e-mail and listening to any voice-mails I may have.  That day I had one and pressed play to hear a rather surprising message.  The message was from a producer at CNBC and was inquiring about the possibility of me being a guest contributor on their personal finance show “On the Money“.  What!  I was shocked, excited, and just a bit freakin’ out.   Sure enough, when I finally talked to the producer, she told me that they were bringing on independent Certified Financial Planner™ professionals to offer some insight on some of the personal finance topics discussed on the show.  How exciting!   I have to get back to them later this month to iron out the details.  I’ll be sure to keep everybody posted.

On the Money has a great blog that you should check out, too; when you get a chance.

Guest Post of The Week

If you want a very simple Shrimp Pasta Recipe head over to Gen X Finance.  I shared one of the easiest and cheapest pasta dishes that anybody could ever make.  It is delicious!

Good Reads

• Paying Back the Economic Stimulus Payment over at Free From Broke
• Do It Yourself Debt Reduction. Tips on how to take care of your debts without having to use a debt management company presented over at My Two Dollars
• Need Help With Debt, Where To Find Debt Advice I Can Trust? Pinyo shares the latest installment of the Ask the M-Network.
• Dave Ramsey’s 7 Baby Steps By The Numbers: Getting Started presented at Bible Money Matters.

• Upside of Credit Crunch For Students presented over at Green Panda Treehouse.
• 2008 Tax Information all in one place at My Dollar Plan
• How Do You Spend Your Emergency Fund at Studenomics. The Studenomist was gracious enough to mention one of my posts.
• Keeping Track of Mrs. Micah’s monthly journey of where her money is going?  Here’s the halfway report on her progress.
• 5 Rules of Spring Training (For Your Finances) at PT Money
• Personal Tax Breaks in the 2009 Economic Stimulus Plan at Cash Money Life
• Consumer Boomer has good info on whether your pension is safe when your company goes bankrupt.

This week’s carnivals:

• Carnival of Personal Finance – Wizard of Oz Edition was hosted at Dollar Frugal.
• Festival of Frugality: Singles Awareness Edition was hosted at The Broke Grad Student.
• Carnival of Money Stories was hosted at Funny About Money.
• Money Hacks Carnival #51 – The Office Edition was hosted at Your Money Relationship.

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