The pundits are now saying the recovery is for real this time, so I suspect one more time the market if going to go down. However, I think it is time for me to start to think about the economy and recovery for myself, rather than believing what other folks think.

From what I know about economics, there is the time to look at the economic indicators, for oneself and see what they are actually doing rather than trusting the pundits.

As amateur economist, we must first identify the list of leading economic indicators and lagging economic indicators. And then choose the one we think we can believe in based on previous performance and availability of data.  Finally, we should track this indicators.

List of Economic Indicators:

1. http://www.investopedia.com/university/releases/

Tracking the direction of the indicators:

http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary/calendars/economic.asp

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/ecalendar/index.html

Having worked in technology and at Microsoft for a while, I know there lots of Nigerians in technology. However more and more are showing up in marketing content.

Two new folks are Makinde Adeagbo (new facebook page) and Dolapo Falola (google reader) more grease to your elbows.

Whoa it has been a while since I blogged, been meaning to get to it but haven’t. Have some really cool ideas that I will like to write about – maybe in a series and then just cross post it here.

Recently started using Google reader and the best thing about it for me is how quickly I can plough through a lot of blog postings.

Less important, is discoverability – I can usually just search for most well known blogs. Finally, there is sharing. I want to share, but not literarily to everyone, which means for example I can’t share with Google. However, the alternative is to use my contacts in Gmail, however I have very few contacts on Gmail.