Flagged Articles from this Week:

• Where Others Fear to Tread - The Economist

A look at the “controversial strategy” of Franklin Templeton’s Michael Hasenstab, a bargain-hunting bond trader.

• Meet the High Schooler Who Made $300k Trading Penny Stocks Under His Desk - The Verge

How one New Jersey Teen led a “risky second life as a day trader.

• The Bitcoin Boy: 16-Year-Old Erik Finman Is in His Silicon Valley Prime - New York Magazine

Erik Finman, whose age “has clearly been an invaluable calling card,” has founded two start-ups and currently lives in Palo Alto.

• Is This the End of China’s Economic Miracle? - Newsweek

Since the economic crisis of 2008-2009, China has “relied on massive infusions of credit to prop up its economy.

• Billionaire Vinod Khosla’s Big Dreams for Biofuels Fail to Catch Fire - Washington Post

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla invested in KiOR, a biofuel outfit that filed for bankruptcy in November.

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