I follow Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution and Matt Levine's Money Stuff. Popehat is another excellent resource. Quora has excellent contributors that are good

I follow Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution and Matt Levine's Money Stuff. Popehat is another excellent resource. Quora has excellent contributors that are good at synthesizing and distilling deep lessons for easy consumption. Finally Stratfor is the best resource for geopolitics. It takes awhile to piece everything together to get a full picture of how the world works, but in my opinion it's worth it. Then you can read articles like this: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/21/sepp-blatter-fifa-power-politics https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/dec/21/sepp-blatte... And gain insights on how global patronage networks tend to work. You can't just take a course or something on international trade and expect to be able to understand it. It's too complicated, even the top dogs only themselves know pieces of everything, they hire lawyers and accountants to actually understand the details.