Nick Niehoff, the mastermind behind the automation of the Cincinnati Stock Exchange (CSE) and the progressive business expert who changed the scope of the stock market forever, has a quiet but powerful way of mixing art and automation so seamlessly it seems easy.

In the words of a Cincinnati Times-Star editorial, “Barney Kroger represented an era which the dominant political currents of our time have ended, perhaps forever. It was a rough-and-tumble era, which developed some very obvious faults but which had even more obvious merits. It was the era of free enterprise.”