Chris Kuehl

Nov 20, 2024 | plasticsbusinessmag.com | Chris Kuehl

By Chris Kuehl, managing director, Armada Corporate IntelligenceJ.K. Galbraith was a noted economist from Canada and famous for his pithy quotes. One in particular sums it up. He said, “The sole purpose of economic forecasting is to make astrology look legitimate.” It has been a rough year for those in the prognosticating business. There was an expectation of recession last year, with predictions of quarterly growth rates in decline.

Oct 7, 2024 | techcommunity.microsoft.com | Chris Kuehl

Thorough observability is essential to a pain free cloud experience. Azure provides many general-purpose observability tools, but you may want to create custom tooling . Inspektor Gadget is an open-source framework that makes customizable data collection easy. Microsoft recently contributed new features to Inspektor Gadget that further enhance its modular framework, making it even easier to meet your specific systems inspection needs.

Aug 21, 2024 | plasticsbusinessmag.com | Chris Kuehl

By Chris Kuehl, managing director, Armada Corporate IntelligenceGiven all the data, where does the economy stand? It is a bit of a broken record, but the old phrase for economists still is true: ‟It depends.” What economists know for certain is that some of the drivers of last year’s economy have faded and one has all but vanished. At the start of 2023, there were a lot of references to the supply chain collapse and how businesses were trying to adjust.

May 20, 2024 | plasticsbusinessmag.com | Chris Kuehl

By Chris Kuehl, managing director, Armada Corporate IntelligenceHas it been mentioned that the sole function of economic forecasting is to make astrology respectable? This was a rather famous and appropriate quote from John Kenneth Galbraith. It’s not that economists are that bad at forecasting but only as good as the data and when these numbers keep changing it makes life interesting.

Feb 27, 2024 | plasticsbusinessmag.com | Chris Kuehl

By Chris Kuehl, managing director, Armada Corporate IntelligenceThere always is something happening in the economy guaranteed to make a fool of economists. After all, the only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. For most of last year, the predictions were some versions of gloom and doom, and every quarter there was further evidence of growth (5.2% in Q3 and around 2.4% in Q4). Now there is debate over what to expect in 2024.