Fighting the Last War

The original iPhone, announced in January of 2007 and released in June of that year, was greeted with plenty of skepticism. Smartphones weren’t entirely brand new, even ones with touch screens, so it wasn’t easily foreseen what an outsider like Apple could provide....

Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global equities make gains Global equities made gains this week as Republicans and Democrats came to an agreement to raise the US debt ceiling, staving off default. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones closed up 1.83% and 2.02%, respectively, while the...

Lenses for Latin America

This week, we will be continuing our series on emerging economies with some thoughts on Latin America. In examining Latin America’s prospects this week, we present below four lenses through which one may begin to assemble a picture of the challenges and opportunities...