Links and Minifeatures 05 23 Tuesday

Carnivals



Carnival of Liberty

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Got a search this morning for"how do I fill out a truth in lending on an option arm?"



For crying out loud. Anybody with any doubts about requiring your own license to work in this business (as opposed to working on the firm's license) should now have had those doubts dispelled. Not that even the California license is difficult. But to be selling the godforsaken P.O.S.es and not to even understand how to fill out the Truth In Lending.



That loud scream of anguish you heard was probably me.



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So much for high gas prices meaning anything that folks will act on, as opposed to merely complaining about it: Baby Boomers Push RV Ownership to Record



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Buying Property, Minus the Hassle



Limited partnerships have their advantages, but you've got to be careful. REITs and limited partnerships and all of that does add another layer of things to go wrong, while not really insulating you from the consequences of bad decisions. Think of them like mutual funds. Except that mutual funds do not, typically, leverage fifty percent or more of their investment.



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Opinion Journal on myths or Iraq and attempts to revise history.



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Jihad Watch notes that the imams of Kabul have called for their countrymen to join the Taliban.



Sigh. I really want to believe in moderate moslems, but I guess once they've had a taste of real coercive power, the clerics find it hard to go back to simply leading.



Toronto Star has the source article.



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Tomorrow's article will be a repost. I ended up working on a couple of ideas for non-financial posts today, one of which I've now posted and the second of which needs to percolate some more before I'm ready to finish it.