Blog: The Ripple
We love what we do, so ClearCreek writes and publishes pieces for a somewhat irregular blog about emerging companies and the capital markets. Or we did for a while anyway, then we did less, and apparently we stopped entirely. But we kept the old posts below. Any errors are ours exclusively while the occasional sharp insight is probably borrowed. We hope you find them of interest, and we always welcome feedback.
Bitcoin of the Realm
2013 in a word? According to at least one economist it was: Bitcoin – a secure peer-to-peer payment system and digital currency created in 2009. New Bitcoins are mined by software programmers, and although users can remain anonymous, central to the system is a public database and sequential record of all transactions,,,
Who Prospers in the Age of Smart Machines?
The insightful Tyler Cowen has studied the way technology can radically change a wide variety of industries — how smart machines might displace human beings. But rather than focus on the typical piece predicting the future of work, Cowen penned an intriguing Op-Ed which tries to imagine…
Reading List: The Sidney Awards
The political commentator and writer David Books gives out annual Sidney Awards to the best magazine essays. All are wonderful, but three bear particularly interest for entrepreneurs and others with an interest in the capital markets…