Master Your Card (genius blog name…) offers up the latest issue of the Carnival of Personal Finance.  When you get there, you’ll be presented with a POP QUIZ, so I thought I’d repost the question here to give you a little more time to think about it before you get there ;)

Pop quiz – You know things are bad when the current financial crisis:

a) Has its own Wikipedia entry
b) Causes the Dow Jones to fall by nearly 50% in a single year
c) Necessitates several ‘bailout’ packages that have now ballooned to well over $3 trillion, or more than the combined GDP of Canada, Mexico and Australia
d) Ushers in the biggest global recession since the Great Depression
e) All of the above

If you don’t have time to read every article in the carnival (there’s a lot) you can just browse through this list of too-good-too-miss posts I’ve carefully selected for ya’all:

  • Money Under 30 has a post on quarterly estimated tax payments.
  • Investing in your Future has a post detailing a few ways to put some extra cash in your wallet.
  • Destroy Debt explains the difference between Chapter 7 and Chaper 11 bankruptcy.
  • Money Answer Guy answers the eternal question of whether you should rent or buy a house
  • Discover Debt Freedom tells you how to correct a credit history error in 5 simple steps.
  • Budgets are Sexy has a piece on why you should think of saving as just like paying an extra bill.