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...Pools) are an excellent first stop and typify the region's color and extravagance. These extraordinary gardens near the mountain village of Xilitla were devised by the English surrealist poet Edward James, who worked on them from 1949 right up until his death in 1984. Giant sculptures, pagodas, moss-covered follies and staircases to nowhere sprawl over 80 acres (32 hectares). Nearby is James' former home - a truly incongruous mansion of turrets and Gothic windows rising out of the jungle. Today, it is a fabulously quirky eight-room hotel, La Posada El Castillo, tel: (52) 489 365 0038, with accommodation...
...Spring of 2009, Moss added two case studies relating to the current crisis to the course, which he began formulating over four years ago. He will teach those cases again when the course is offered in the Spring...
Throughout its chronology, the course focuses on bubbles and crashes, Moss says. “People have joked that this is a course on destroying the modern financial system...
...Moss says financial history gives students a better perspective on how finance works in reality, in addition to explaining how various aspects of the current crisis came about...
...Moss] drew comparisons between the crazy current crisis and past crises. Not everyone has a direct mirror to today, but with every historical case, he pulled out insights that will be relevant going forward...