Crowdsourcing the Future: Introducing Global Real-Time Consumer Confidence Tracking - 0 views
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What were current consumer confidence readings? It would take weeks or months to find out, and even then only selected countries would be reported on. I kept asking myself, what is the point of having a forward indicator when it takes so long to get the data? Remember that consumer confidence is not drawn from government data that needs to be tallied in highly secure data rooms. It is just an aggregation of our views.
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What were current consumer confidence readings? It would take weeks or months to find out, and even then only selected countries would be reported on.I kept asking myself, what is the point of having a forward indicator when it takes so long to get the data?Remember that consumer confidence is not drawn from government data that needs to be tallied in highly secure data rooms.It is just an aggregation of our views Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/crowdsourcing-the-future-introducing-global-real-time-consumer-confidence-tracking-2011-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29#ixzz1NtezvKXE