Invented by The Economist in 1986, the Big Mac index has ever since been the go to guide for burger connoisseurs to check purchasing-power parity around the globe. Even though it was never intended to be a precise economic parameter, burgernomics somehow emerged as a promising niche field of...
Motivated by this logic, The Economist has compared the price of Big Macs around the world since 1986. The result is a rough gauge of the purchasing power of currencies. It suggests that many currencies are undervalued, relative to the dollar, on theforeign-excha...
That makes China’s yuan one of the most undervalued currencies in the Big Mac index, our gratifyingly simple guide to currency misalignments, updated this week (see chart). The index is based on the idea of purchasing-power parity, which says that a currency’s price should reflect the am...
Using the price of a Big Mac in two countries, the index can give an indication as to whether a currency may be over or undervalued. For example, a Big Mac costs ¥24.40 in China and $5.81 in the United States. By comparing the implied exchange rate to the actual exchange rate, we...
Big MacCurrencies.Presents the magazine's Big Mac index. Its light-hearted guide to whether currencies are at their `correct' level; Index based on purchasing-power parity (PPP); How the chart measures PPP by the price of a Big Mac; The index correctly viewing the euro as overvalued....
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aThe Big Mac index suggests that currencies are particularly overvalued in Norway, Switzerland and Brazil (see chart). The continuing strength of the real is a big source of irritation to Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, who first trumpeted the phrase “currency wars” in 2010. Brazil...
“In the same way that Mac introduced us to personal computing and iPhone introduced us to mobile computing, Apple Vision Pro will introduce us to spatial computing,” Tim Cook said in the presentation, leaning into the public expectation that the Vision Pro will be the next big thing for Ap...
We're excited to share that we are working on an update which will include a feature to filter out these extreme values from the price chart. This will enhance the readability and ensure a better understanding of the price trends. Regarding the issue with the "Give Feedback" button, we're...