• Recovery Indicators Take Another Sidestep
• Marketing Services is the Easy Answer, Just Like Buying New Equipment Always Was
• How Printing Industry Employment has Changed Since 2000
• Is the Recovery Sputtering Already? Caution is the Word
• Apple's iPad, a Great Leap Forward of... The Same Trends We Already Knew

2/15/10 - Broadband hours and the statistical relationship with printing volumes

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WhatTheyThink Economic Webinar, Wednesday, April 7, 2:00pm

Xerox Real Business Live! Building Your Customer's Business: Don't Just Survive... Thrive! Dr. Webb's presentation is Directions to the Future: Creating a Fresh Role for Print in the Hyperconnected Marketplace; Vancouver, British Columbia, April 13, 2010; location and registration details available soon.

Ondemand Show, April 20-22, 2010, Philadelphia; events to be announced

Book Manufacturers’ Institute 2010 Management Conference, May 2-4, 2010, Williamsburg Lodge, Williamsburg, VA. Speaking date and time to be announced. Contact Jackie Murray, Conference Coordinator, BMI, (386) 986-4552, info@bmibook.com

WhatTheyThink Economic Webinar, Wednesday, September 15, registration details to be announced.

Annual GraphExpo breakfast event, Tuesday, October 5; 8:00am Chicago time, for breakfast, presentation begins at 8:30, with break at 9:40 for show floor personnel to leave, and Q&A continues to 10:00am. GraphExpo is October 3-6 at McCormick Place, Chicago.

WhatTheyThink Economic Webinar, Wednesday, December 8, registration details to be announced.

Dr. Joe Webb is available for speaking engagements and consulting projects. To get more information contact us here.

• Weathering the Employment and Printing Shipments Data
• Just When I Thought We Were Becoming Japan, Stagflation Seems More Likely Again
• Nothing Confuses Like Statistics
• Same Old, Same Old is Getting Tiresome

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The Industry Snapshot is a collection of regularly updated industry data about shipments and various measures of business activity. View Snapshot

Recently updated as of 03/11/10:

Printing Industry
Capacity utilization
Industry capacity
Printing & related PPI
Trade Statistics by Country (Printed Matter and Related Products)
Trade in goods and services- foreign trade, books, printed material
Publishing/Creative Industries
Revenue
Advertising and related services
Advertising and related services infl-adj $
Publishing industries
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Newspaper publishers
Newspaper publishers infl-adj $
Periodical publishers
Periodical publishers infl-adj $
Book, database and directory, and other publishers
Book, database and directory, and other publishers infl-adj $
Paper & Packaging Industry
Capacity utilization (NAICS 322)
Industry capacity (NAICS 322)
PPI
Paper manufacturing (NAICS 322)
Pulp, paper & paperboard mills (NAICS 3221)
Converted paper product mfg (NAICS 3222)
Canada
Capacity utilization (NAICS 322)
Capacity utilization (NAICS 323)
Shipments (NAICS 323) C$
Shipments (NAICS 323) US$
Shipments (NAICS 323) CPI adjusted C$
Shipments (NAICS 323) CPI adjusted US$

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Recently updated as of 03/17/10:

Gross Domestic Product:France
Consumer Price Index: Mexico, Germany
Producer Price Index: United States, Germany, France
Unemployment Rate: Canada, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom
CB Leading Index: United Kingdom

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• Monthly U.S. Printing Shipments - January 2010
• Introduction to New Media: 6-Session Self-Paced Course
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• Media Mix and the Impact on Print
• Sustainable Print in a Dynamic Global Market
• Trends in Books 2007 - 2012
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• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
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• "Age of Engagement" presentation
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