Dear Jim,

I plan on owning and operating a for profit chain of re-education camps. State funded and too big to fail, of course. And at graduation rather than robes, everyone wears a tarp.

CIGA Rusty Bayonet

Rusty Bayonet’s Misean Institute Local 401:

Core curriculum : Term One
1. Household Balance Sheets : An Introduction to Penury
2. How Wall St. Ate Your Retirement
3. How to Spot Financial Advisory Fraud : The Mouth Moves
4. Mid-term Debate : Keynes, Friedman And how to Hose the Future
5. Rethinking Children/Grandchildren : Basic Costings
6. Survival Mandarin, Part 1
7. Zen and the Art of Hummer Maintenance
8. Fieldtrip to the Fed : BYO Small Arms
9. Why Dark Pool Trading is Not Your Friend
10. Countdown to a COMEX Bust : Probabilistic Modeling and You
11. U6 and the New Leisure Society
12. End of Term Asssignment : Where did the TARP Funds Go?

Term 2 : Applied Course TBA
Semester II : Applied Curriculum – Building on the Lessons of Semester I
1. Do You Look Good In Orange? A Wall Streeter’s Guide to Gitmo
2. Living With Gruel : An Update
3. Introduction to the New Nutrition : Squirrels, Insects And Their Many Uses
4. Super UNsize Me : Homilies on CDSs
5. Tort Refresher : The Value of the Paper It’s Written On
6. Mid-term Roundtable : Squashing the Long Bond Yield, a Discussion with Guest Experts Eldo, Macray, and Quixande.
7. Applied Baltic Dry Studies : Term Paper The Long Trail from the ASX to US Manufacturing
8. Poverty in Context : Comparing North Carolina and Sierra Leone After the Rebellions
9. And Not a Drop to Pump : Oil Supply Distortions and the Case of Georgia
10. We are All Iceland Now : Historical Perspectives on Iceland.
11. The Fundamentals of the Bailout Are Strong : TARPs, TALFs and Why Five-letter Acronyms are an Excellent Short Position
12. Final Paper : It Could Never Happen Here. Discuss.

Term 3 : Working Professionals’ Core Course, TBA.
Semester III: Applying All We Have Learned
1. Do You Look Good In Orange II?  Care and Maintenance in Challenging Environments
2. Guest VC Commentator : Neutron Bernie from the US Virgin Islands on Booking and Busting $50b, "You have to start from zero to get back to zero".
3. Headline Writers Are Morons : Bloomberg Edition. Discuss.
4. The IMF Is Back In Business : Streamlined Conditionality and the New Endocolonialism, with John Perkins
5. The Anglos do the Slavs, Again : The Eastern European Bust of 2008
6. Mid-term Debate : The Austrian School and the Psychopathology Of Market Fundamentalism, Deflation Case Studies
7. To Build a Better Oligarchy, an American View
8. State Failure: When the State Is Your State, A Presentation from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, with Q&A and vodka cash-bar
9. Introductory Air Movements and Convoy Behavior : Looking Out For Ourselves And Applied Tinfoil Techniques
10. Ni shuo shenme? Wo ting bu dong!?? Further Guidance on Cross-cultural Negotiation Tactics.
11. Spontaneously Arising Leadership : So the Syndicalists Had a Point?
12. Term paper : How It Will Never Happen Again. Open Discussion.

The Curriculum Board makes no undertakings that course Participants will either learn or activate the learning imparted. Past returns are no guarantee of future results.