Voting has begun for the Best & Worst of 2006 and so far real estate mogul Donald Trump seems to be one of the early favorites. Trump has taken an early lead in the Most Annoying Money Personality category with 35% of the vote, and his hair has taken a commanding lead in the Worst Signature Style with 81% of the early vote.

Jim Cramer and Suze Orman aren't far behind Trump as the Most Annoying Money Personality, with 29% and 22% of the vote respectively. Mark Cuban trails with only 14%, but it's still anybody's game.

Despite Lee Raymond defenders leaving comments on his behalf, the former ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) chief has taken the lead as the Most Overpaid CEO with 44% of the vote. Bob Nardelli of Home Depot (NYSE:HD) follows with 25%, then Barry Diller of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC) with 20%, and Terry Semel of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) bringing up the rear with 10%.

In the Worst Signature Style category, Simon Cowell's T-shirt (11%) and Steve Jobs's turtleneck (6%) are fighting for distant second place, while Warren Buffett's glasses are showing signs of being the dark horse with only 2% thus far.

The Up-and-Comer nominees are set to be profiled later today, with more nominees in more categories to be examined in the days ahead. But go ahead and vote for your favorites, or for the underdogs. Voting ends December 24.

As they are so fond of saying in Chicago, vote early and vote often.

This post is written as part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst 2006. You can vote for Suze Orman as the most annoying money expert.

For some of us, certain names come more readily to mind than others when a phrase like the "most annoying money expert" is bandied about. For her critics, financial guru Suze Orman is one such name.

Besides being the author of best-selling personal finance books and the host of CNBC's The Suze Orman Show and QVC's Suze Orman's Financial Freedom, Suze (rhymes with doozy, not snooze) has won two daytime Emmy Awards. A pitchwoman par excellence, she has raised millions of dollars for PBS. She's also a Certified Financial Planner who has worked at both Prudential and Merrill Lynch. With well-known catchphrases such as "Truth creates money. Lies destroy it," and "People first, then money, then things," she's a popular columnist and public speaker -- a favorite with Oprah and Larry King.

Orman claims that she does not multitask, which she says leads to mediocrity. While having neither a husband nor children to distract her, Orman also claims to have no personal assistant and no permanent employees -- she's a one woman show.

She has a reputation for offering practical, easy-to-understand, and down-to-earth financial advice that's nonjudgmental towards those who have made poor decisions. But her advice can also verge on New Age mystical. For instance, Orman sometimes asks audience members to rip a dollar bill in half. Most cringe at the idea, which she claims is due to that fact that money has an energy field that other objects don't have, almost as if money were alive.

David Bach is author of the bestselling "Finish Rich®" series of financial advice books, recordings and other tools. His testimonial-filled and heavily trademarked site, discusses what he's termed and trademarked "The Latte Factor®" under the "free resources" page. Basically this is the idea that you can "finish rich®" by focusing on the small unneeded expenditures many of us make throughout the day. If everyone took this advice, stopped buying what they did not absolutely need, what an interesting economy we would have. Certainly, a smaller one.

Starbucks would disappear overnight. Is that going to happen?

Not too long I posted a story about how Yahoo! Answers was becoming a dominant part of Yahoo!'s traffic, and one of the most visited information and reference type sites online. Techcrunch notes that Yahoo! Answers is launching something called an 'Ask the Planet' campaign. The idea is that celebrities, notables, and other high-profile type people (like Arianna Huffington, Suze Orman, Stephen Hawking, Bono, etc) will provide the answers in order to win prizes.

The prizes are pretty nifty, like free gas for a year for answering correctly to a question posed by the Click and Clack brothers from NPR. Yahoo! is clearly trying to drive the visibility of an already popular service even higher by using celebrity mojo. The question is, how and when will Yahoo! choose to slip in advertising or seek to monetize this interesting resource, and what effect will that have on their traffic and bottom line?