Most of my career was spent in an office in a high-rise in the shadow of what was then known as the Sears Tower in…
Dr. Thomas CarrNovember 17, 2020
When was the last time you saw stodgy old industrial conglomerate Honeywell (HON) mentioned in the same paragraph as Microsoft, Amazon and Apple? Why, it…
Dr. Thomas CarrOctober 19, 2020
There’s little difference between the roller coaster at your favorite theme park (remember those?) and the one that the market has been on recently. In…
Dr. Thomas CarrOctober 12, 2020
Think of it as “kind of like the difference between hiring a venue to put on a show vs. building a venue to put on…
Dr. Thomas CarrOctober 2, 2020
“I’ll have what she’s having.” That, of course, is the memorable line from the 1989 movie, When Harry Met Sally, which was uttered by a…
Dr. Thomas CarrSeptember 28, 2020
It’s the oldest continuously tracked exchange rate in history. The Roman Empire set the ratio at 12:1; centuries later, the United States fixed the ratio…
Dr. Thomas CarrSeptember 25, 2020
The Denver Broncos were behind by a touchdown with less than six minutes to go on a cold January day in Cleveland in 1987. The…
Dr. Thomas CarrSeptember 18, 2020
My first job after college was as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. My beat: the commodity markets, everything from pork bellies (the raw…
Dr. Thomas CarrSeptember 11, 2020
Most of the business sectors that have benefitted from the pandemic aren’t all that surprising – food delivery companies such as Grubhub (up 97% since…
Dr. Thomas CarrSeptember 4, 2020
