WaPo Hawking $300 Online 'Master Class' Course on Economic Literacy

May 18th, 2011 10:30 AM

The Washington Post hopes you may want to "Widen Your World," with online "Master Class" courses that cost $200-$300 a pop.

For example, there's Steven Pearlstein's "Introduction to Economic Literacy."

[Lesson number one: don't spend $300 to have a liberal journalist lecture you.]

Budding oenophiles can bone up on "The Wines of Bordeaux" with Joseph Ward, which you may need after exploring the mind-numbing complexity of "How the Government Budgets and Operates."

For an image of the advertisement as I received it in my inbox this morning, check below the page break: