With all the media attention lately, it wouldn't be a COTC without a post on options backdating, so Sox First gives us Options Scams: Timing is EverythingAs usual, look around. There's always lots of interesting stuff at a Carnival.
Searchlight Crusade goes into the ins and outs of buying distressed propoerties in Foreclosures: A Good Investment?
Gongol gives us Traffic Rankings for Major Business and Economics Websites. It's a nice way of putting website traffic in perspective.
Finally, Ask Uncle Bill discusses pensions in Pensions - The Not So Good Old Days
This Week's Carnival Of The Capitalists
The Independence Day COTC is up at My Money Forest. Because of the holiday, there are fewer submissions than usual, but there were a few that caught my eye. Here they are: