In this environment, businesses rise and fall based on the performance of markets, and their ability to manage their resources. While speculation abounds this is mostly based on the review and analysis, no matter how cursory, of what is taken to be accurate and credible statistics produced and published at set periods by official or publicly acknowledged institutions.
BIS Review 19/2005  1  Information is such a critical part of this era that not only do we speak of the Information Age but three distinguished Economists have received the Nobel Prize for their work in this subject area.