Bullish Economic Indicators: Gold and Global Bandwidth Prices Both Fall

To find some good news about the global economy you have to go digging. Analysts, notable John Tamny in the Wall Street Journal, see the fall in gold prices as bullish for economic growth.  Think of falling gold prices as a trailing indicator of investments shifting from safety to optimism.  Moving cash from gold to growth. For a leading indicator we don’t dig…

Apps Lead the Way to the Next Innovation Hypercycle

For those who want to see the “future that has already happened” (to paraphrase my favorite Peter Drucker aphorism), I recommend reading three illuminating reports. Soft Power: Zero to 60 Billion in Four Years, from Entropy Economics Industrial Internet: Pushing the Boundaries of Minds and Machines, from GE. Analytics: The real-world use of big data,…