In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Ataman Ozyildrim from The Conference Board.  We discussed leading economic indicators and its importance in tracking the economy's business cycle. He provided his insights on the current situation of the economy. He continued by pointing to the changes in supply chain trends. We also talked about the digital economy and measuring innovation in organisations.  This is only a glimpse into the many excellent insights from Ataman and The Conference Board.  Recommended book: Business Cycles: Theory, History, Indicators, and Forecasting by Victor Zarnowitz Recommended paper:  On the aggregation of probability assessments: Regularized mixtures of predictive densities for Eurozone inflation and real interest rates by FX Diebold, M Shin, B Zhang