Here are my observations, they should give you some good ideas about how to gain some high quality incoming links, that you may never have discovered if you didn’t do your market research properly.

Sell gold?(FT)

Within a year, though, the gold bear market will have run its course, and Mr Bernanke’s other academic speciality, depression avoidance, will be called on. He and his counterparts in Europe, Japan and China will be called on to keep the global Ponzi scheme going, because the real economies cannot stand a bust in the financial economies. In anticipation of that rapid reversal, gold will take off as it hasn’t for a generation.

Renting a room(personal finance advice)

If you have extra space in your house, you may have considered renting out a room to bring in some extra cash and share the utility bill costs.

Luck OR Skill?(BBC)

But unpredictability is what makes entrepreneurship an interesting challenge – it is not an exact science to create a successful company, and life would be duller if it was.

Find a profitable Rental Property(plus6)

After multiple years of being a seller’s market the tides are turning, and buyers have the upper hand.

It basically allows you to monetize your site’s audience by selling job listings on your own customized job board to employers who are looking for talents in a specific field.

Creating Effective Business Logos(Timeforblogging)

One of the first things that you’ll need to do when starting a business is to create a logo to represent your company. It seems like this may be a simple thing, but it is often more difficult then you think!

Slowdown In House Prices(firstrung)

According to its latest index, house prices in mid-May rose 0.4% on the month and were 13.1% higher on the year. That marked a sharp slowdown from the 3.6% monthly and 15.0% annual rates of increase reported in April.

Resources For Entrepreneurs(getrichslowly)

I’m under the impression that the failure rate for small businesses applies to those with employees. If you follow Andréa’s advice and become a consultant, or if you take the route I’m pursuing and work as a wholly independent freelancer, I think the survivability rates are much higher.

Email Organisation(timferriss)

How does he manage to read and organize tens of thousands of e-mail?This exclusive 5-minute interview provides some great tips for avoiding e-mail overload

In this particular chart, I used the 50 day moving average as a clear example of support.

Nationwide Downgrades Expectation(ukhousingbubble)

Does this mean that the days of double digit appreciation are over? It seems so, at least as far as the Nationwide is concerned.

Russians behind the bubble(ukhousingbubble)

According to a recent myth, it’s not the Bank of England, and its low interest rate policies.

Intrest rates to peak at 7%?(indy)

The general market reading of this is that it, on balance, reinforces the case for another move to 5.75 per cent later in the year.

12 Cheats for independent Entrepreneurs(mashable)

If you’re an Internet old timer, chances are you’ve already taken the initiative and set up various web-based money makers: selling t-shirts, putting ads on your website or even running a small business out of your garage.

Millions of articles have been written about the benefits of following these principles. These are are proven principles that, if followed, will lead one to be wealth. It should be automatic.

5 Business Start-up Rules(JohnChow)

The ideal business requires very little cash to start. This is why I like the Internet so much.

Inflation vs. Inflation(ukhousingbubble)

The Bank created an explosion in credit, which generated a feverish speculative boom in the housing market.

Invest Like Others(thedigeratilife)

What are your investing strategies and how have you decided to allocate your money? What does your portfolio look like?

I’ve never spent this much time scouring the Google SERPs on a single topic before and I have to say that the results returned were much lower quality than I would have predicted (I can only guess what the Yahoo and MSN results would have looked like, but I assume worse.)

Mortgage Default Causes(yahoo)

This raises an obvious question: Why was the mortgage-lending industry willing to make loans that were workable for the borrowers only if their properties appreciated?

del.icio.us promotions (doshdosh)

I’ve included social media optimization as the last step because I think the other three steps should have a higher priority. Doing this at the last step will also allow you to gauge the response of social websites to your article and react accordingly.

Blogging Competitor Analysis(artofmoney)

For each high level keyword in your list (you should have no more than 7-10) do a Google search and take a look at the top 10 or 20 results for each of them.

I’ve been experimenting with StumbleUpon for the past few months and have had several pleasant experiences.

UK interest rates up to 5.5%(BBC)

The increase, the first since February, takes the cost of borrowing to its highest level since 2001.

Invest In UK Domains(selfmademinds)

I have developed an interest in domain names recently and although it seems that you need deeper pockets to buy anything good in the .com game I found there are opportunities in the .co.uk market that could serve as an investment for a later date, note you can buy UK domains even if you are not in the UK so no geo restrictions.

Buffett Bad for Business?(Marketwatch)

Nearly a year after Buffett pledged to give $37 billion of his personal wealth to charity, the 76-year-old and his shareholder flock at Berkshire shot down a series of do-gooder proposals that would have required the company to spare some profits in the name of social responsibility, and maybe saving a few lives.

Seth and the Dip(personalmba)

Mental models are powerful and flexible tools that can help you understand a wide variety of situations, and collecting useful models is one of the primary purposes of self-education.

Testing To Failure(stevepavlina)

If you want to know if an idea really has merit, test it under real-world conditions. Then you’ll have your answer.

Blogger Podcasts: There are hundreds of bloggers and podcasts out there, so instead of having an enormous list, I’ve picked out a few of my favourites.

Steve Pavlina Podcast Library (Personal Development)
No Credit Needed Podcasts (Personal Finance / Debt Reduction)
Money Blogger Podcasts (Personal Finance Interviews)
Money Girls Quick and Dirty Tips (Home and Mortgage Tips)
Financial Sense News Hour (Economics / Interviews)
Financial Times Podcasts (Business / Economics)
43 Folders (Productivity)
Harvard Business Online (Business)

BBC Podcasts: Although these will be primarily of interest to UK listeners, daily updates on a variety of topics can be really useful if you run out of other listening material.

BBC Five Live – Wake Up To Money
BBC Four – In Business

Free Audiobooks: The vast majority of these audiobooks are readings of books whose copyright has expired. this means that they’re heavily weighted to older books and classics. If you’re looking to expand your education into the literary classics, it’s ideal though.

Project Gutenberg Humand Read Audiobooks
Low sound quality AudioBooksForFree
TellTale Weekly Free Audiobooks

Podcast Directories: As previously mentioned – there’s loads of podcasts on business and finance on the internet, so head over to these sites to search for the best ones.

Business Podcast Directory
PodCast.net
NPR Business Podcasts
Ipodder.org Business Podcasts
Yahoo Podcasts
Podcasting News Business Directory
Digg Podcasts
Odeo
PodNova

Things are looking rough for the gold price (in at least the short term). From the look of it, a fall to $670 – $667 at least is likely, hopefully it’ll bounce off that level. If you’re looking to speculate, stay away for a week or two.

If you’re buying gold for a long term (1 year +) then these blips shouldn’t concern you. Gold is on the up, and will be for a good few years to come.

Keep an eye on the dollar. If it falls, gold will benefit.

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From wikipedia:

In 1927 at the age of 32, bankrupt and jobless, living in inferior housing in Chicago, Illinois, he saw his beloved young daughter Alexandra die of the complications of polio and spinal meningitis. He felt responsible, and this drove him to drink and to the verge of suicide. At the last moment he decided instead to embark on “an experiment, to find what a single individual can contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity.”

Wow. Now that’s a goal for life.

It’s interesting to note that Buckminster with the exception of the geodesic dome, most of his inventions never were successful. above his inventions though, it’s his approach to life that impresses me the most. In reversing the old “scarcity” model in which humans have to fight over their allotment in life, he calculated that the earth had more than enough resources to support all of humanity.With plenty resources to live off, optimising our use and doing more with less, could give us all a comfortable existence. Instead of fighting wars, and going through such conflict and strife we should quite logically develop new tools to take advantage of the abundance that is all around us.