Welcome to the Oct 02, 2008 edition of collection of personal finance articles by others.

The Shark Investor presents The Alternatives Of 9 To 5 posted at The Shark Investor.

CheapLee presents Government Bailouts Gone Wild! posted at Cheap Lee Dot Com, saying, "You would think that getting a bailout is almost too easy. All you need to qualify is to have overpaid executives allow their companies to make foolish loans to beef up corporate profits so the US can bail them out a few years later because we are in dire of need market stability. Sounds unfair!?!"

Jose DeJesus MD presents Market Neutral Funds - Hedge Funds for the masses posted at Physician Entrepreneur, saying, "With the ups and downs of the recent market there has been a significant interest in market-neutral funds."

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Wall Street Woes posted at Mad Kane's Humor Blog.

Joe Manausa presents Bailing Out The Banks? Actually Bailing Out America! posted at Tallahassee Real Estate Blog, saying, "While mainstream media refers to this as the "fat cat" bailout for Wall Street, you might be surprised who really needs this bailout to occur. What would happen to your job if the credit market stopped for even 1 week?"

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