Not being familiar with Niall Ferguson, I Googled him (did not read full search btw)
Jul 30, 2012 ... Niall Ferguson is a professor of history at Harvard University. He is also a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University,
also NYT is already chiming in that “Newsweek must not have fact checkers”
so must be real.
I suggest you read “The Ascent of Money”. It’s a very good book. He’s a good writer. It was also a PBS series.