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Driving to Berkeley.

Occasional snaps over at Tumblr and Flickr.

Econo Blogosphere Entertains on China v US Currency Wars. [FT | The Economist | NYTimes | Bloomberg]

Dollar Down. Renminbi Up. Only questions are how and when?

Let China Sleep, For When She Wakes, She Will Shake the World.

Reposting an old review of the essential China Shakes the World by James Kynge.

Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down [TechCrunch]

TechCrunch on foreign applications to US schools: Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries. [...]

Jon Oliver on the MBA Ethics Oath.

Jon Oliver asks Columbia’s Bruce Kogut if he’s ever had a student he thought would do some serious jail-time and then chats to Harvard MBAs about the ethics oath.

Future Luxury?

McKinsey take a look at Luxury in Japan and try to fashion some long-term industry trends.

Seth updates us on the most selective MBA program in the world- His.

Sounds like it was a lot of fun.

Grads’ Global Popularity Charts.

Where are US college students most excited about launching their careers?

Rebuilding Dubai via Entrepreneurship.

Dubai, at the vanguard of globalization and home to a monumental property bubble (relative to its tiny economy), has not taken the Great Deleveraging well.
Looking strategically beyond the bubble fall-out lies a huge opportunity for a sustainable Dubai recovery: Entrepreneurship.

Is Capitalism Moral?

In its March / April issue, The American Interest published excerpts from a John Templeton Foundation event in London that asked the question “Does the free market corrode moral character?” to some leading scholars.