China is already leading in top management education — my personal journey at Fudan University.
This is another example of where China has moved up the world ladder.
Look at the latest FT global EMBA ranking. A Fudan-linked program is world number one. Six of the top ten are Chinese or jointly run with Chinese universities. Elite executive education has already moved.
I did the Chinese Fudan EMBA fifteen years ago. It was a privilege. I just realised it is now ranked world number one by the FT. Quite shocking. I want to share that classroom, because the ranking only confirms what I saw then.
I went in thinking I was reasonably prepared. Back home I had what would be considered a high math level. In that room it became one of the most humbling experiences of my life. I had been a big fish in a small pond. Suddenly I was a big fish in a big pond full of big fish. The saying is 小巫见大巫 (xiǎo wū jiàn dà wū) — a small magician meeting a great one. I was the small magician, surrounded by bigger magicians, smarter people. That feeling returned more than once. A large share of classmates were STEM graduates — engineers and operators who had already built factories or scaled technology. Quantitative fluency on another plane. Builders first, not salesmen.
In China, the more one learns, the more humble one becomes. Arrogance about knowledge only shows how little one sees of what remains to learn.
Many classmates were Party members, some already at senior levels in Beijing. Their overall competence — IQ, technical depth, command of files — was far higher than that of most Western politicians. A scary thought from Europe.
That class already showed where the country was heading. Since then China has changed in almost every dimension: infrastructure, industry, science, cities, logistics, digital systems, military modernization, technical talent. The workshop became a systems power.
China will go much further. The conditions are there: human capacity, infrastructure, planification, and a system that can still set long-term priorities and deliver them. This is not 拍马屁 (pāi mǎ pì) — flattery.
I am Swiss-Italian. I care first about my own countries. That is why it should alarm us — or inspire our societies to deliver tangible results.
I happened to do the top one.
Sit in that room and the ranking is less surprising. Late recognition of what was already visible fifteen years ago.
The knowledge gap stayed with me.
My Chinese classmates knew their own history, their constraints, and the West in detail — markets, politics, media, corporate language.
The reverse was rare. They studied us.
We recycled slogans about them.
The cultural difference was in full display.
Chinese classmates showed wisdom in silence and listening. They waited, then spoke once and hit the point. Westerners — myself included — filled the air, thinking out loud. One talked five minutes to circle an idea.
The other listened twenty and settled it in a sentence. Volume is not intelligence. The sharpest people were often the quietest.
Chinese wisdom arrives in few words. A short remark, then the point stands.
I went looking for a credential. I found a country that already knew itself better than we knew it — and was quietly building the capacity to lead.
11 Grok Bot tips that will make your setup SO much more powerful:
1. Make your first bot a CEO. Then make all your other bots workers the CEO delegates to. Push all tasks through your CEO agent
2. The best way to create bots for yourself is the brain dump -> reverse prompt method. Brain dump EVERYTHING about yourself then ask your agent what are the best agents you can make that will increase your productivity
3. Reverse prompt your routines. After setting up your bots, ask your CEO agent what are the best routines each bot can set up to increase your productivity.
4. Set up your plugins. My favorite one is AgentMail. It’s free and lets you give your agents an email inbox so they can then sign up for their own accounts instead of using yours.
5. If you have multiple devices and computers, download Tailscale (it's free) on all of your devices. This creates a private network which will allow your agents to move across all your computers and manage them however you want
6. Connection your agent to GitHub/Vercel/Cursor Origin so it can vibe code for you. Will write code and push the code live autonomously for you
7. Give them actual names, not just ‘coder’ or ‘marketer’. Way more fun this way. I just enjoy communicating with agents that have real names so much more. Put their roles in the title instead (will display next to their names).
8. Grok Bot has its own limits outside of Grok Build and Cursor, so don’t feel like you need to limit yourself on the other tools to get the most out of Grok Bot
9. If you have a bunch of different agents, create 'sections' to organize them into folders
10. They by default do all of their work in the virtual machine. if you want them to do work locally on your computers, explicitly ask them to do work on your computer
11. Install the Notion plugin then have your agents record their work in a Notion note. You can then review this later to track everything they do independently.
Boom, you have a super powered team of AI agents working for you
I interviewed an investor who co-founded a Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973.
That fund returned 4,000%+ in the same time the S&P did 47%.
Jim Rogers sat down with me & shared insights every retail investor needs to hear right now:
1) Buy gold & silver if it's price drops
This is a massive Cup and Handle
The mother of all C&Hs
It has broken out
Price is retesting
Price is going MUCH higher
Question is when of course
$SI_H
True short story here
Hey anyone in MN or from MN
Ran across this in my files
Page 1 biz section of the Mpls Red Star from back in early 1980s
Here's the story. I took my family from Chicago and moved them into a township of 1,400 people occupying about 35+ square miles. 30 miles for my kids to school each way.
Super rural. But on wonderful lake. What a super place to raise my boys. Favorite years of my life, no close second.
So, I needed 5 or so different phone lines at my home. The phone company had to come in 1/4 miles with a trencher. They said I had the most lines in town.
When they asked me why so many lines
I told them I was a professional gambler (kind of true)
They only knew the truth when the newspaper came out on Christmas day 1983
I’ll never forget this sight. Tonight I saw my first aurora from space. Luckily, there is a video to help remember and captured it perfectly. The KP index was over 5 tonight because of a solar event and the sky over Australia lit up and the green snaked across the atmosphere. I was filled with awe and gratitude. It’s a beautiful planet we share.
Japan🇯🇵 is currently executing what may become the most catastrophic monetary policy error in modern financial history.
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is trapped in a brutal, zero-sum macroeconomic corner: they cannot raise rates aggressively without completely nuking the finances of the most heavily indebted nation in the developed world, yet holding off means watching their sovereign bond market slide toward a systemic collapse.
By burning billions in foreign reserves to artificially prop up a dying Yen while simultaneously printing money to buy their own crashing bonds, Japanese policymakers are essentially holding a grenade with the pin pulled.
If this experiment detonates, it will make Arthur Burns’ 1970s stagflationary missteps look like a minor accounting error.
🚨 THE JAPANESE DOOM LOOP: Why a Economic Crisis is Unfolding
1. The Burning Yen & Empty Buffers
The Sinking Currency: The Yen continues to languish near historic 40-year lows against the US Dollar.
Desperate Interventions: Tokyo is burning through its real-money reserves, executing massive FX "ambush" interventions..selling US Treasuries to buy Yen.
The Limited Impact: This multi-billion dollar defence is failing. The market is absorbing the intervention cash and continuing to dump the currency because the underlying structural math is broken.
2. A Sovereign Bond Market Under Siege
Yields Exploding: Long-term Japanese Government Bond (JGB) yields are hitting multi-decade highs, with 40-year yields breaching 4%.
The BOJ Left Holding the Bag: Traditional institutional investors are fleeing the fixed-income market. To prevent an outright market freeze, the BOJ is forced to act as the ultimate "buyer of last resort," absorbing more than 50% of all outstanding government debt.
3. The 250% Debt Trap meets an Aging Demographic
The World’s Highest Debt: Japan’s gross national debt sits at an astronomical 250%+ of its GDP.
The Math of Ruin: If the BOJ raises short-term rates aggressively to protect the Yen, government interest payments will explode exponentially.
Demographic Collapse: A rapidly aging, shrinking workforce cannot generate the tax revenue needed to cover skyrocketing debt-servicing costs. Raising rates directly threatens to bankrupt the state's social safety net.
4. The Onset of Vicious Stagflation
Imported Inflation Shock: Because Japan imports the vast majority of its energy and food, the obliterated Yen has triggered a massive cost-of-living crisis.
Drowning Living Standards: While basic survival costs surge due to global supply shocks, real domestic GDP growth remains functionally stagnant.
The Policy Trap: Japan has effectively engineered a worst-case scenario: a hyper-inflated cost of living paired with an economic growth trajectory that is completely flatlined.
Curtains.
The best reason to learn risk management:
So you do not have to make the same dollar over and over again
I like to earn it, then keep it, or most of it