In order to truly get a death grip on your finances, you need to make sure you know all the different types of options available to you, and most of us don’t.

That is why I’m here to save you. If you have never really gave a look at my blogroll (link of sites on the right), then you are really doing yourself a disservice. Most sites listed under the list are interesting yet informative domains of personal finance.

But yet again, I am here to save you. Here are just some of the great post picked from these sites. I have also sprinkled in a few other interesting post from around the web.

From the Roll

20s Money - 20 Must Reads for 20-Somethings

“I have decided to compile the best 20 articles judged by content and popularity for this post.”

June is over and so marks the end of the first half of 2008. The following are the most popular articles at TWI during the month of June. The US stock market apparently saw one of the worst months since the Great Depression; however, I think I held my ground.

• To Buy or Sell?
• Become the Outsourc-ee
• Let the Map Tell you To Buy or Rent
• Go Broke or Move to the Beach
• Where Did the Internet Go?
• Something is Better Than Nothing

Stay tuned for the “Best of First Half of 2008″ later today or tomorrow.

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The “uncertainty” of the current US economic conditions has a lot of different people taking several different views, which leads to great reading material (Click on source for full story).

The Run Down

Business Pundit: “Do you dream of starting your own business, but lack the funds? Do you have an idea that if you were given the chance you know it would work? If you’re like most aspiring entrepreneurs you are never short of ideas, but finding the money to finance your idea, well that’s a different story.”

Afraid to Trade: “We’ve heard the market adage: “Sell in May and Go Away!” but does it really work? Historically, the market has performed better from the October - May period than it has from May to October, but I wanted to show you the last few years starting with 2002 and conduct visual inspection of this strategy.”

I had been pretty busy all this week, so I was never really able to run any good positions. It was probably a good thing I didn’t. When I open Firefox the home page is my personalized iGoogle, with a Google Finance section in the corner (yes I my life is google). Not good to see so much red I presume.

Good thing for this and this.

Now its time for you to catch up on whats going on (click on sources for full story).

The Big Picture: Anybody else trying to hold themselves back from a discounted shopping spree in Florida?

Afraid to Trade: “Listen to the “voices of volume” and what they may be saying about recent price activity, so that you may have a fresh clue about what may be happening in the ever-changing saga between buyers and sellers in the marketplace.”

I understand that many of you out there are desperately craving TWI’s next article day and night, but sometimes you just need that fix of personal finance right here and now. Let me introduce the Money Hackers Network.

The Network consists of roughly a hundred (still growing) personal finance sites and blogs. On top of that, every week the Hackers spit out their best articles in a weekly carnival, with tons of great personal finance subjects at a click of the mouse.

So if you are bored, want to learn more, or even want to become part of the network, then go ahead and check out the Money Hackers.