Mashup Dashboards of all types on all subjects are rolling out through the developers. (The Dashboard Spy has a thousand examples.)

But here’s one to look at, online at Russell Investments: What’s the State of the Economy? You can spend one minute there and learn a lot from this dashboard.

It’s designed to help financial advisors explain what direction the economy is headed, displaying several economic and market indicators on one page. Each indicator shows a Typical and Extreme range, where we are now, and which direction we are headed. I optimistically interpret it to say we’re in an early stage of Recovery.

Actually, the Recovery – in its early, ill-defined, wild-west phase – is my favorite part of the regular Crash/Burn/Recover/Reinvent cycle. This is my fifth cycle in high tech, as depicted in this Business Cycle Index chart (also from Russell Investments). It’s fascinating, you can see the pattern. Look how steep the recovery rises are. Sit tight and hold on. It’s comin’.