What Google Searches And Ford Pickup Trucks Tell Us About The Economy

While consumer price indices and shopper sentiment surveys give statistically-significant pictures of our economy, they might not provide the most vivid pictures. For that, it can be helpful to turn to what one market analyst has dubbed “off-the-grid economic indicators,” a list of offbeat trends — like Google searches and the price of bacon cheeseburgers — that give a surprisingly incisive look at how our economy is really doing.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2014/09/30/what-google-searches-and-ford-pickup-trucks-tell-us-about-the-economy/