Some helpful investing resources:
Financeasia.com
This site has sharp news and commentary on Asian investment banking, with comprehensive summaries of new deals. If you want to read about deals in the kind of language and analysis the professionals use, the website of Finance Asia is a great place to turn.
It is particularly helpful when describing pricing of new deals - investors can get a sense of why a bond or an IPO was priced at a given level and whether this will be supported in trading.
The Accidental Theorist
Princeton professor and columnist for The New York Times, Paul Krugman, won a Nobel Prize for economics. He is at his most accessible in this book, which explains abstractions like money supply and Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in highly understandable terms.