A Look into the Future: The Next Big Thing?

A Look into the Future:  The Next Big Thing?

There’s always a lot of talk about “the next big thing.” Will it be self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, robots, fin-tech, re-tech, cloud computing, block chain, streaming- or something completely different?

We wish we had a crystal ball for the answer to this, but unfortunately we don’t. What we do know is that online retailing took many years to reach a point where it actually became a threat to brick-and-mortar stores.

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How Economical

How Economical

For most, financial and economic forecasting is considered a relatively boring subject (that we find it fascinating and fun may explain why we are available most Saturday nights on short notice). OK, let’s edit “relatively boring” and just admit that most find it “extremely boring” and would rather attend a Kars4Kids concert than spend time performing or reading economic analyses and forecasts. It is generally a deep review and comparative analysis of current business cycles, myriad statistics, dry surveys, etc. and applied toward the future based on statistical analysis, historic comparisons, trends and experience. We will try to be more conversational here. 

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