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1 day 5 hours ago

Yesterday, March 9th, 2009 was the bottom of the burst of the "sub-prime" lending global crisis. Within a year, the Dow is up (61.2%), S&P 500 (68.3), NASDAQ (83.8), wonderful signs of a rally which may stimulate growth and jobs for a depressed U.S. economy. In fact, over the course of a year, there were few losers. The rally has been compared to one of the greatest since the 1930's depression. Will the rally continue?

6 weeks 1 day ago

Recently we examined some historic economic bubbles, as the market fluctuated, resulting in a peak of activity, and a subsequent burst of the bubble, and settling financial investments. The dot.com bubble bursting in 2000, was a perfect example of how new technologies, can really take off in their beginning stages, subsequently peak, and then burst. But just because the peak activity dropped, did not mean the end of digital technology, internet domains, or the use of the internet. The Gartner group formulated a theory of how new technologies go through a cycle. Based on geographic metaphors, Gartner claims that a new technology will be marked by:

1. A Technology Trigger
2. A Peak of Inflated Expectations
3. A Trough of Disillusionment
4. A Slope of Enlightenment

6 weeks 1 day ago

The housing bubble bursting in 2008, was the most recent economic bubble which burst, and had global economic effects on finance. But historically there were many other economic bubbles, for example the rise of digital technology, especially the internet and internet domains was quite a boom, for awhile, as evidenced in the following graph:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/NASDAQ_IXIC_-_dot-com...

Some other techno influenced bubbles historically, have been the railway expansion, of course, Detroit and the automotive industry, but some very peculiar ones as well, such as the Tulip mania of the Dutch market. For a fun quiz, follow the link below, on whether you can name 14 historic bubbles:

7 weeks 2 days ago

With the advent of new technologies it seems a good idea to take a second look at technographics.  Basically market segmentation, based on technology being used.  With the advent of new technologies, such as the Apple Tablet, and Motorola's "Android" we can define the behavior and consumerism of a market based on the usage of these devices.  Developed by Forrester Research, social technographics can be a useful tool for demographic analysis.  Usually, technographics can be thought of as a ladder of participation, as in their picture below found at

http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2007/04/forresters_new_.html