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I teach a course in marketing for college graduate students, so I’m always looking for new ideas for my classes. Reading an online business journal regularly is a quick and convenient way to find topics of interest. Whether your business place is your home or a corporate office, it’s important to keep in touch with what’s happening in the modern business world. A lot of companies now do business overseas, not just multinational corporations. Even if this is not the case, many, if not most of what Americans use here are things that are at least partially manufactured in another country. It only makes good sense to learn more about the trade views of a variety of businesses, whether they’re in the United States or elsewhere.

My graduate students are pretty knowledgeable about computers and the internet; I assign a lot of web reading. Let’s face it – a lot of content in textbooks becomes obsolete quickly these days, so for class material an instructor can’t depend totally on print media anymore, not even newspapers. Decisions made by governments and corporations can rapidly affect business and trade all over the world in unforeseen ways, so anyone studying business these days must be well-informed about economic news on an international level.