Friday Roundup
May 16th, 2008 Posted in Friday Roundup, Personal finance
I’ve seriously been slacking off on my Friday Roundups. Furthermore I was kind of lazy about it, because I usually linked to people I had in my blogroll anyway. So here are some new pieces from new sources to shake things up a bit.
- Introduction: Muslim’s Guide to Money Management. If you’ve ever wondered about how Muslims do personal finance since charging interest (riba) is not allowed, this is a great resource. There’s lots of good advice here for unbelievers as well.
- Part 1: Debt perceptions and consumer culture.
- Part 2: Debt perceptions and the Islamic view of debt.
- Part 3: Americans in debt. (Let me point out here, even though I shouldn’t have to, that people exist who are both Muslim and American. Both Muslims and non-Muslim Americans fall into the trap of thinking of it as either/or, almost out of habit.)
- Part 4: Why Muslims are in debt/Money myths!
- Part 5: Debt freedom!
- Part 6: Cars, houses, and… oh yes… STUDENT LOANS. Long-time PF writers and bloggers who haven’t before encountered the Muslim perspective on personal finance will be pleasantly surprised to see their beliefs echoed here.
- And finally, from a different website by a (presumably) non-Muslim Asian, a surprising take on yet another way the American way of life takes advantage of every other culture: Saving is Sin, Spending is Virtue. Sustainable-living advocates already know that we Americans only have our high standard of living because we live it at everyone else’s expense in the form of externalizing environmental (pollution), economic (forcing people to live on slave wages in Third World nations), and social (destroying cultures) costs. I guess it never occurred to me that we siphon off financial resources directly too, while not giving nearly enough back. And by spending instead of saving, we are hurting ourselves directly as well.
My little girl’s dad makes fun of me for WILFing*, but it’s amazing what I find sometimes. 
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*Mindless web-surfing or, What was I Looking For?
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