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Despite a slightly positive consumer price index (CPI), the producer price index (PPI) has been falling for 47 months in a row.
When the VIX volatility index hit all-time lows, it was not because fundamentals demanded it.
For 35 years, I have put my spare savings into Vanguard index funds, and done very well with it.
But in giving general advice to others, I am a true believer…diversify in Vanguard index funds and leave it alone.
According to the conventional wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
One could have predicted in advance of the recent boom how the 12 large OECD economies would rank simply by knowing the percentage of the population with a university degree, the OECD index of barriers to entrepreneurs, and the breadth of the stock exchange (measured by the market value of outstanding shares relative to GDP years before the boom).
Scoring high on the OECD index of barriers to entrepreneurs is bad for all three elements of performance.
To compare median household incomes over time, the authorities divide these annual dollar values by the consumer price index to create annual real median household incomes.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans’ standard of living.
To convert annual incomes to real incomes, the CBO used the price deflator for consumer expenditures, which many believe is better for this purpose than the consumer price index.
The authorities arrive at their estimates by converting dollar incomes into a measure of real income by using a price index that reflects the changes in the prices of existing goods and services.
But that price index does not reflect new products or improvements to existing goods and services.
In middle-income countries, too, average body mass index (BMI) is rising steadily.
Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.
Bhutan’s holistic approach takes into account material, social, spiritual, and environmental factors, measured according to the GNH index.
The GNH index and policy tools have helped to turn the notion of measuring and maximizing human well-being into an operational concept.
Between September 1 and February 22, the FTSEurofirst index rose by almost 7%.
Among Latin American countries, only Chile and Uruguay rate better than Cuba in Transparency International's corruption index.
Only such “just” growth can eventually be converted into high GNC: “Gross National Contentment,” a truer index of economic well-being.
And Hoenig’s index should be picked up and publicized by a major organization, such as the IMF.
In 2015, Nicaragua ranked in the 28th percentile in the World Bank’s Rule of Law index, meaning that 72% of countries did better.
So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.
The idea of creating and publishing an index with country rankings is a strategy adopted by many organizations and social movements to raise awareness about issues such as corruption, governance, freedom, gender equality, competitiveness, productive knowhow, and the investment climate, among others.
This distracted them from focusing on what is important rather than on what was included in the index.
In Moscow, the RTSI index was down by 3.3% at its closing bell.
In Sao Paolo, the Bovespa index was down by 6.6%, and in New York the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 3.3%, when those markets closed at 21:00 GMT.
The realignment of regulated prices with market prices, together with that of foreign and domestic prices (through exchange-rate depreciation), produced an inflation shock, with the consumer-price index reaching a 13-year high last year.
We also need to build new ways to measure development beyond GDP, and propose a new sustainable development index by 2014.
There is no question that emerging markets are highly sensitive to global market conditions, including not only changes in short-term US interest rates, but also other financial risks, as measured, for example, by the volatility index VIX.
The validity of the finance ministry’s position on the tax increase was called into question by the decline in Japan’s Nikkei index of stock futures after Abe’s October 1 announcement.
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