Alan Beaulieu

President
ITR Economics
One of the country’s most informed economists, Alan Beaulieu is a principal of the ITR Economics where he serves as President. ITR predicts future economic trends with 94.7% accuracy rate and 60 years of correct calls. In his keynotes, Alan delivers clear, comprehensive action plans and tools for capitalizing on business cycle fluctuations and outperforming your competition--whether the economy is moving up, down, or in a recession.
 
Since 1990, he has been consulting with companies throughout the US, Europe, and Asia on how to forecast, plan, and increase their profits based on business cycle trend analysis. Alan is also the Senior Economic Advisor to NAW, Contributing Editor for INDUSTRYWEEK, and the Chief Economist for HARDI.
 
Alan is co-author, along with his brother Brian, of the book MAKE YOUR MOVE, and has written numerous articles on economic analysis. He makes up to 150 appearances each year, and his keynotes and seminars have helped thousands of business owners and executives capitalize on emerging trends. 
 
Prior to joining ITR Economics, Alan was a principal in a steel fabrication company and also in a software development company.
Articles by Alan Beaulieu
U.S. computer & electronics production cmpared to U.S. industrial production
Make Your Move: Computers and Electronics Orders Slowing Down
It is amazing how quickly people's view of the economy can change. By some accounts, we have gone from plunging off the fiscal cliff at the beginning of the year to now scaling the dizzying heights of the stock market.
chemicals industry growth
Make Your Move: Chemical Industry Outlook Lively for Inorganics
Finding your way past the screaming headlines and political skullduggery surrounding the economy today can be quite an undertaking. But a look at the facts can help bring a healthful measure of calm and reality back to the situation. Consider these facts.
national defense expenditures graph
Make Your Move: The War on Defense Spending
It’s an axiom in defense circles that “no plan survives contact with the enemy.” In our case, no government spending reduction plan seems to survive contact with Congress.
Consumer spending helps auto industry
Make Your Move: Consumer Spending Keeps Auto Industry on Growth Track
Navigating the twists and turns of the economy during 2012 certainly was unsettling to businesses. Election year detours, political roadblocks and fears of a fiscal cliff cropped up along the way, and the path for business leaders to follow was anything but clearly marked.
Now is the time to invest in upgrading your operations.
Make Your Move: Peril or Profit -- What Should You Expect from the Economy in 2013?
Don't be put off by the gloomy headlines. Now is the time to invest in upgrading your operations.
Mining industry growth chart
Make Your Move: Finding Opportunity in the Mining and Metals Market
Renewed demand in Asia in early 2013 will bode well for the U.S. mining and metal production industry.
demand for construction materials on the rise
Make Your Move: Material Progress
With the U.S. economy generally improving for the past three years, demand for materials has been steadily growing. Even industries hit hard by the past recession, such as construction materials, are rising.
Make Your Move: Life Sciences: Biotechnology 1

Look at the economic data today and you will find that most sectors of the US economy are expanding. Now to be fair, the growth rate in many industries is slowing, giving people that sinking feeling that slower growth soon will turn into no growth at all. This is the nature of business cycles—faster and slower growth, pocketed by periods of recession. We expect that US industrial production, our benchmark for the economy, will continue to expand over the next 12 months.

The Rise of the Machines (Makers)

The U.S. economy, as measured by U.S. industrial production, is expanding. The annual growth rate of 4.1% is on target with the forecast we presented in March 2011. IndustryWeek readers should be moving forward with confidence that more opportunities await us in the latter half of 2012 and in 2013. The forecast calls for the economy to continue to expand at about this pace through the first quarter of 2013. A noticeably slower rate of rise will characterize the remainder of 2013.

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