Prosper Days is Monday and Tuesday of this week.  I am looking forward to it.

Here are some of the best posts from around the personal finance and p2p lending blogosphere.

Freakonomics asks Is Cheating Good for Sports?

RateLadder built a tool to Convert Prosper XML to CSV

Blogging Away Debt tells us of More Reports of Credit Card Interest Rates Raising Mysteriously.

brip blap gives job jumper tip #5: take a break

GenX Finance offers 3 Effective Option Strategies to Soften The Blow in This Volatile Market.

Melissa of QueerCents has More on Goal-Setting: Running and Finances

The Digerati Life reviews 10 Free Tools to Help You Get a Handle on Your Personal Finances

Lazy Man and Money did a 3 part series asking Should We Tax the Unhealthy? (part1, part2, part3) 

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RateLadder is a Prosper lender and has been since July, 2006.  He has a passion for p2p lending.  He owns RateLadder — My Prosper.com Journey and other P2P Lending Adventures, P2P No Bank the P2P Blog Aggregate, and ProProsper — Professional Tools for Prosper Lenders featuring SQL access to Prosper data.