Introduction
                                    
                                        How the economy impacts your business
                                            
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                                1. Strategic Planning
                                    
                                        Economics as a decision-making guide
                                            
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                                        Articulating economic impacts
                                            
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                                2. The Most Important Economic Growth Indicators
                                    
                                        Using economics jobs data
                                            
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                                        Breaking down GDP
                                            
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                                        Using retail sales data
                                            
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                                        The importance of consumer and business confidence
                                            
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                                3. The Most Important Cost Reports
                                    
                                        The costs and benefits of consumer inflation
                                            
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                                        Producer inflation impacts on corporate profits
                                            
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                                        Wage inflation impacts on business
                                            
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                                4. The Most Important Policy Reports
                                    
                                        Tracking Fed decisions
                                            
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                                        Taxes and government spending
                                            
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                                        The IMF and key policy signals
                                            
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                                        Watch the OCC and FDIC for critical warnings
                                            
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                                5. Other Critical Data
                                    
                                        Demographics and future economic outlooks
                                            
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                                        Making comparisons
                                            
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                                        Game theory and optimization
                                            
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                                Conclusion
                                    
                                        Keeping your finger on the pulse
                                            
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