Welcome to the first Carnival of Investing for 2007. How you feeling? Still working off that hangover? Here, try two of these:

Okay, that should help. Now, let’s get a few things to get out of the way. Because there was a one week hiatus, some of you submitted two entries. In such a case, I chose one article to use. Also, all entries were accepted providing they actually had something to do with investing. Surprisingly, some didn’t. What’s up with that? Anyway, on to the links!

To begin with, while there is a plethora (that’s right, a plethora) of articles worth reading, here are the Editor’s top 5 picks listed in no particular order.

• Robert D Flach aka The Wandering Tax Pro has a great article about comparing taxable investments vs. tax-free investments such as munis. Good stuff!
• In keeping with the tax theme (it must be the end of the year or something!), Jim over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity asks Is Your Retirement Investing Strategy Tax Efficient? Well, is it? Go find out!
• Super Saver over at My Wealth Builder writes Why I Don’t Use DRIPs Anymore
• The Bionic Blogger known as Trent over at The Simple Dollar talks about Calculating Phil Town’s Sticker Price. (Note: article has nothing to do with actual stickers, although it does deserve a gold star)
• Erich over at LifeTraining - Online says that there are 10 Questions that Determine your Financial Fitness.

And here’s the best of the rest:

• Brandon Peele presents The Economics of Self-Awareness posted at GT
• Ashish Hanwadikar presents Investment Strategy posted at Ashish’s Niti.
• bill presents A REALLY Stupid Idea posted at Ask Uncle Bill.
• Tyler presents 5 Rules For Winning Dividend Stocks posted at Dividend Money.
• Andy Boyd presents The difference between Saving and Investing posted at Wealth Talker.
• H.S. Ayoub presents Could Tiny Ask.com Help Topple Google? posted at SciTech Investor.
• FMF presents How to Make Your Child a Millionaire posted at Free Money Finance.
• Growth in Value presents I’m $697.83 richer thanks to pfblogs.org posted at Growth in Value.
• Dominic presents Trend Trading Systems posted at Trader Knowledge.
• Azmi Mufti presents Predicting the Ups and Downs of Stocks posted at American Desi Notes.
• William Wallets presents Investing 103: Isolating Your Investing Habits posted at A Financial Revolution.
• Flexo presents The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Credit Cards, Part 1: The Good posted at Consumerism Commentary.
• John Hill presents Law of Tenfold Return posted at Universe Of Success.
• MoneyMan presents Peter Lynch’s One Up on Wall Street posted at Watch Your Wallet.
• Daily Dose of Opimism presents Some Wisdom on “Hedge Funds” that Don’t Hedge posted at Daily Dose of Opimism.
• Jason Hamlin presents Sasol and the Liquid Coal Revolution posted at Gold Stock Bull.
• Renthusiast presents Manhattan gets ready for “Bonus Bump” posted at Renthusiast.
• Surfer Sam presents Stock Investment Fraud Exposed. Swindler Plays the Game Well posted at Surfer Sam and Friends.
• Matthew Paulson presents Why They Want You to Be Broke! posted at Getting Green.
• TJP presents 101 Ways to Invest money - Complete Series posted at Investor Trip.
• Tracy Coenen presents Apple Computer stock option problem posted at Sequence Inc..
• fedor presents MONEY MANAGEMENT and FOREX posted at forexblog.
• Silicon Valley Blogger presents All Hail To The January Effect posted at The Digerati Life.
• TradeRadarOperator presents How to Profit in Today’s Real Estate Market posted at Trade Radar.
• Jeff Burkey presents Against All Odds posted at HedgeFundDomain.
• Steve Faber presents 5 Keys to Getting Good Buys on Great Stocks posted at Debt Free.
• Dan Melson presents Unsustainable Loans You Should Not Use to Purchase a Property posted at Searchlight Crusade.
• makingourway presents How 1% improvement in return makes our lifetime savings plan work posted at makingourway.
• Ben presents How to Buy Low, Sell High, and Reduce Risk by Rebalancing Your Investment Portfolio posted at Money Smart Life.
• The Dividend Guy presents 2006 Results for The Dividend Guy posted at The Dividend Guy Blog.
• Michael K. Dawson presents Mr. Government Will You Keep Your Cotton-Picking Hands Out of the Market: I am Trying to Make a Buck posted at The Time and Money Group.
• Bill Shepler presents Options Sentiment in Danger Zone posted at Zen’s Market Insights.
• The Thirst Trader presents The Trading System and Five Golden Rules posted at The Thirsty Trader.

Whew! There you have it. Thanks to everyone for participating and thanks for stopping by Adventure Money. May the new year bring you health, wealth and good parking spaces. Cheers!

Yeah, I know I’ve been MIA for a while. Get off my back! I do hope to get back in the swing of things in the coming weeks. For now, however, I’d like to talk about a few Internet financial resources that I really like but don’t see mentioned when making my rounds in the personal finance world, at least not enough.

The first is the Vanguard Diehards forum over at Morningstar.com. I read a lot of personal finance sites and while sites such as CNNMoney or Yahoo! Finance are useful, perhaps the best information on investing can be found on the Diehard forum.

Now, as with any Internet message board, you should always take things with a boulder of salt, but after reading a while you should start to get a sense of who is worth listening to and who isn’t. Take the one month challenge - read the forum for one month and you’ll be amazed how much you learned.

The next two resources I’ll group together since they are somewhat similar. Financial-planning.com and FA-mag.com are both industry print magazines for financial planners that also have an online presence. The articles from each issue are posted online and can be read by anyone. Because of the intended audience, there are a few things you should know. First, some of the articles may not be of interest, such as articles related to practice management, but there are many articles worth checking out. Second, some of the material may be beyond the “range” of people just looking for personal finance tips. Still, I’d encourage you not to be intimidated and check it out.

For my last pick, another forum. Most people are familiar with Kiplinger magazine and Kiplinger.com. The latter has a pretty active community of posters on the Kiplinger forums that I’ve found to be pretty useful. All of the previous disclaimers regarding the Diehard forums apply here as well.

So those are my picks. Do you have a favorite financial resource that you don’t think gets enough love?