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This morning's readables, to be enjoyed with coffee (or your stimulant of choice):

• Fred Bergsten urges Obama to be bold on trade in an op-ed for the FT.
• What went wrong with economics? With reponses being posted here, here annnnd here.
• Not-so-well-endowed: Harvard is facing financial troubles. Is Larry Summers partly to blame?
• Rumours that two of the most awful places on the planet are teaming up.
• Dan Drezner discusses Iran, rap music and international relations theory