The Five Big Surprises of Radical Management - Forbes

The Five Big Surprises of Radical Management - Forbes

M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes

M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All - Forbes

a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world.

Could be incredibly valuable, most likely in exporting education to highly wired underdeveloped countries, perhaps Indonesia?

Common mistakes of right-wing and market-oriented economists? — Marginal Revolution

Common mistakes of right-wing and market-oriented economists? — Marginal Revolution

Along with its companion piece vs left wing economists, good place to start if one wants to dig deeper into what's (normatively, though probably only nominally...) right and wrong.

The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS) � naked capitalism

The Trouble with Principles: Or, How to Not Lose Friends and Alienate People When Learning Economics (#OccupyWallStreet, #OWS) � naked capitalism

Wray: Krugman has shined the headlights on the crucial currency issuer-currency user difference � naked capitalism

Wray: Krugman has shined the headlights on the crucial currency issuer-currency user difference � naked capitalism

From an investing standpoint you have to get this one right. The bond vigilante paradigm has been false in Japan and now in the US as well. If you had seen rates in Japan at 2% and shorted them saying they would come up, you would have lost your shirt. Conversely, if one uses the currency sovereignty paradigm, the short-JGBs trade is one that one would have avoided.

What a cautious investors should do is shun repressed assets and seek next best alternatives in similar assets classes or in different currencies – corporate over government bonds, Canadian over US, etc. Indonesia, for example is an opportunity.