Best of blog posts for week of February 12th

Brip Blap gives a cautionary tale about his life in the salt mine.  Personally I've been lucky or lazy enough to not fall into that kind of work trap.

Adam a guest poster at Get Rich Slowly finishes his 3 part series on a nearly disastrous rental investment read all 3 parts:  part one , part two and part three.

Generation X Finance wrote Social Security – What You Need to Know About Benefits, Coverage, and Eligibility  which has lots of good info on how social security works.

Yahoo has an article about credit cards with 79.9% interest rates.