October 6th, 2009 
ccurwick I first heard economic historian, Niall Ferguson on a Harvard Business School podcast back in July. One of the topics of the interview with Ferguson was “Chimerica,” a term he uses to describe the co-dependent relationship between the U.S. and China. Ferguson posted another short article on his blog at the end of August titled, [...]
September 19th, 2009 ccurwick Is retail really dying after all? All industries are getting annihilated in retail. Fewer buyers are walking the trade show floors and many manufacturers too are throwing in the towel. These days, it’s hard to imagine a world without discount internet sites where product is sold at a deep, deep discount off of its retail [...]
July 12th, 2009 ccurwick One of the weekly pod casts that I subscribe to is called, “Harvard Business IdeaCast.”Last week’s pod cast was worth blogging about, as it featured an interview with Niall Ferguson, Harvard Business School Professor and Oxford Economic Historian. Niall Ferguson, an expert in international financial markets, discussed an article he wrote, that also appeared in [...]
March 8th, 2009 ccurwick Many Americans have no idea what happened to the Peso in Argentina less than eight years ago. In 2001, the Argentinean people feared the worst and began to withdraw large sums of money from their bank accounts, causing a run on the banks. The government quickly enacted measures (informally known as the Corralito) that froze [...]
January 30th, 2009 ccurwick The new economy was officially ushered in ten years ago when the Internet began to become a part of everyday life. Well, duh. Doesn’t everyone know that by now? However, the largest changes have occurred so gradually, so slowly, and so many of them we are only seeing now. One example is that many publicly [...]
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