If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” since my former life was in the auto-racing industry. The name “Lap of the Blogs” is in reference to “A Lap Of The Gods” which is an old video series which chronicled on-board footage of the world’s greatest F1 drivers lapping various racetracks from around the world. NOTE: you have to visit the actual website to see the embedded video – it may not appear in your email. Just click on the title of the email to see it…

You’ve probably noticed there haven’t been any posts this week – nothing dramatic to report, just busy with work and I felt I wasn’t getting enough sleep so the blog had to take a back seat this week. I’ll get back to regularly scheduled programming in the next week or so. Thanks for your patience!

From Around The Blogosphere

Larry MacDonald writes about Charles Schwab’s new ETFs which have MERs comparable to Vanguard and are available for purchase without commissions for Schwab account holders. If I were a betting man, I would imagine BMO would be looking at this option for their new ETF line-up as well – since they aren’t attracting much in the way of assets as far as I can tell.

Jonathan Chevreau covers the new Ontario push for financial literacy in school. Better late than never I suppose.

Rob Carrick writes about the same issue here.

Ellen Roseman writes about big companies behaving badly.

Canadian Capitalist discusses the Globe’s discount broker survey for 2009.

Million Dollar Journey explains that Canadians don’t use coupons as much as they could.

Four Pillars answers a reader’s question about a strategy using margin.

Michael James on Money wonders if you really can profit from “the end of oil”?

Big Cajun Man explains the RDSP  (Registered Disability Savings Plan) account for Canadians.

Thicken My Wallet talks about the meaning we can infer from Buffett buying railways and India buying gold this week.

No video this week, but have a great weekend everyone!