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What sort of cognitive dissonance does it cause when you read a new post in February and the title contains a data in January? Whatamess!

Feel like helping push DQYDJ closer to the top of the world (loosely defined)? We’re 2 followers away from 200 on Twitter and 2 likes away from 65 on Facebook.

You’re back reading the Weekender! Happy weekend!

Let’s dig into the best articles of the week!

Can you ever forgive us for blacking out the site Wednesday? You can? Okay… then hopefully you’ll forgive a bit more ranting on the issue in this edition of the Weekender (most of it way below the fold.)

Welcome to the Weekender, the highlight of everyone’s week! (And isn’t that what really disappoints you during the week- the fact that DQYDJ is so far away from posting another Weekender?)

Okay folks, let’s hit the links under the watchful eye of the squirrel…

I know it says the 26th, but this thing will be posted on the last day of the year. You know what that means? Just like all the other web sites you read, we’re going to recap our best articles from the year (in addition to our normal roundup)! Lucky you!

Welcome to the Christmas/Holidays/Winter Solstice version of the DQYDJ weekender!  The three writers on the web site are Catholic (we’re from Boston, remember?) so this is being sent out on Christmas Eve for us.  Happy Holidays to you and your families, and enjoy this wrap up.

We’ll be back next week with more controversial stuff, but for now we leave you with the cream of the crop for the week!

Check it out – a year from now will be 12/12/12! That’s got to be lucky in a year.

First off, we cracked 200,000 in our Alexa rank. Much thanks goes to the ladies and gents in the Yakezie Network who have been with us on this journey. It would have taken a while without you folks! Here’s to 5 digits!

Welcome back friends, readers, and haters to your favorite Personal Finance web site! I hope we pleasantly annoyed you with our balanced take on the unemployment report this week. Nothing was too hard hitting – you know that men are finding themselves unemployed more than women and the 8.6% top-line unemployment rate begs the question, is the unemployment rate an improvement? How much mileage can you get out of a single unemployment report? Plenty, it turns out. We’ll stop now until it strikes our fancy again (or I can get Cameron and Bryan to write something!).

One more Weekender!

Back for more? We don’t blame you. We enjoy writing it, so please keep reading it!

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