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It is hard to believe it's been four years since Jay and I launched the Carnival of the Capitalists. Back then, it was innovative and fresh because we were the first spin-off from the original blog carnival, Carnival of the Vanities. For that first year, the CotC was a powerful source of traffic. It was usually linked by Instapundit, and that alone could send nearly 2000 new visitors to your site (that was a ton in 2003/2004). But the low barriers to entry of creating a carnival led to an explosion of ever more niche carnivals that effectively killed their traffic value. Spammers of course compounded the problem by submitting useless posts just for the links. All in all, it's amazing the CotC has kept going. Luckily for us, Jay is stubborn.

This will be the last time I host the CotC as Businesspundit. For those who don't follow regularly, I'm selling this blog and *retiring* in February. I want to write somewhere else. I want to return to blogging for fun instead of for money. I want to write less often, but more in-depth. I hope the new owners keep promoting the CotC, but whether or not they do will be up to them. Anyway, on to this week's carnival…

Editor's Choice - My Favorite Posts of the Week
These posts will be considered for addition to MBA by Blog, the best of the best business post directory.

Stirling Newberry presents The Sound of Barn Doors Locking posted at The Agonist.

Logan Flatt, CFA presents How to Get Ahead In America (1st of a 12-Part Series) posted at PowerWealth.com.

Melissa presents Another Grocery Store Bites The Dust posted at A Penny Closer.

Mike DeWitt presents Who Will Be the Li and Fung of IT Outsourcing? posted at Spooky Action.

Roger Ehrenberg presents Rating Agencies: In Need of Some New Math? at Information Arbitrage.

Sales and Marketing

Michelle Cramer presents Advertising Quality in Your Product posted at GreatFX Business Cards.

Charles H. Green presents How Sales Contests Kill Sales posted at Trust Matters.

Edithyeung presents 12 Reasons Why People Want to Keep Your Business Card posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act..

Maria Palma presents Online Business Resources: Add It to the To Do List: Blog For Business posted at Online Business Resources.

Economics

Andy Swan presents Wisdom of Crowds? Think Again.

SportsBizBlog presents Hamilton Poised to Make History, and $60 Million.

Kurt Brouwer presents $57.9 Trillion - American Net Worth posted at Fundmastery Blog.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Why The Rich Get Richer: An Entirely Different Perspective posted at The Digerati Life.

Econbrowser's James Hamilton reviews the evidence besides Friday's employment report suggesting that the economy is doing better than many analysts had been expecting in Not all the news is bad.

Ian Welsh presents Ricardo's Caveat posted at The Agonist.

FMF presents $5 Million is the New $1 Million (Or Maybe $2.5 Million Is) posted at Free Money Finance.

Management and HR

Annette Clancy presents The Secret Keepers posted at Interactions - Creative Strategies for Business.

J. Alan Maguire presents Career Considerations posted at Saving Advice Blog.

Wayne Hurlbert presents Staff training: A business essential posted at Blog Business World.

John Crickett presents How To Deal With Complaints That You Haven't Recieved Before They Loose You Business posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas.

Paula presents Navigating the Unemployment Compensation Waters posted at Queercents.

Law, Government, and Policy

Dawn Rivers Baker presents Lessons in lobbying for corporate movers and shakers posted at The Journal Blog.

Steve Bainbridge presents Law & Business | Professor Bainbridge posted at Professor Bainbridge's Business Associations Blog.

Henry Stern discusses healthcare.

Finance and Investing

Tracy Coenen presents Mark Cuban and Sharesleuth.com: Good or bad idea? posted at Sequence Inc. FRAUDfiles by Tracy Coenen.

Steve presents The Milk Jug Factor posted at Sushi Money.

Matthew Paulson presents Protect Your Senior Parents from Financial Scams posted at Getting Green.

FIRE Finance presents Are Banks Safe In A Falling Market? posted at FIRE Finance.

Tom Hanna presents What happens to bonds in a recession? posted at Financial Options.

The Skilled Investor presents Understand the confusing securities market motion picture posted at The Skilled Investor Blog.

The Financial Blogger presents 8 reasons why you are losing money on the stock market posted at The Financial Blogger.

Super Saver presents Financial Risk With Innovative Investments - Buyer Beware posted at My Wealth Builder.

The baglady presents Early Retirement May Not be Optional for Twentysomethings posted at The Baglady.

Leon Gettler presents Interview with Triodos Bank executives posted at Sox First.

Andy presents Overcome your worst fear: Learn How to Save posted at moneywalks.

Phil presents Is it Time to Purchase Bank Foreclosed Properties? « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity.

Steve Faber presents - How to Get Great Information for Investing Success posted at Debt Free.