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Our country-wide index shows a strong correlation between low-income status in rural areas and heat vulnerability.
These goals would be best achieved by keeping inflation, measured by the Fed’s preferred personal consumption price index, at 2% in the long run.
Since then, the four-quarter growth in that index has been below this target in every quarter but one, as Fed forecasts of inflation consistently fell short of the mark.
It is interesting to note that polls and the Portland index of the Soft Power 30 show a decline in American soft power since the beginning of the Trump administration.
The reason is simple: while Venezuela represents only about 5% of the index, it accounts for about 20% of its yield, because the yield on Venezuelan debt is about five times larger than that of other countries in the index, a reflection of the huge risk premium that Venezuela faces.
They currently spend a disproportionate share of their time “getting the Venezuelan call right,” because their bonuses are based on their over-performance relative to the index – of which Venezuela is the main driver.
Over time, JPMorgan should introduce a Decent Emerging Markets index, which would save you from moral anguish by ensuring that only countries adhering to minimal standards of respect for their citizens are included.
For the two countries’ exports to the European Union, the Finger-Kreinin index, which measures trade similarities, is more than 70%.
As we argued in this year’s Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Report, better health care and education – two pillars of the World Bank’s “human capital index” – can unlock productivity and innovation, reduce poverty, and generate prosperity.
Indeed, among the World Bank’s six “Governance Indicators,” China’s scores on the “Control of Corruption” index have actually slipped in recent years, from -0.20 in 1998 to -0.40 in 2002 and -0.69 in 2005.
In 2005, the World Bank ranked China 142nd out of 204 countries on the “Control of Corruption” index.
Indeed, among the World Bank’s six “Governance Indicators,” China’s score on the “Rule of Law” index has also slid in recent years, from -0.28 in 1998 to -0.47 in 2005, when China ranked 124th out of 208 countries in this category.
Mexican mortgages are indexed to inflation, but the state mortgage agency links that index to the minimum wage and makes up the difference if mortgage interest adjustments for inflation outpace wage growth.
For liberals, free speech is a key index of freedom.
(The largest six-month decrease was, you guessed it, during the Great Depression, when the index fell 47% from November 1931 to May 1932.)
Another index of nuclear-power accidents – this one including costs beyond death and property damage, such as injured or irradiated workers and malfunctions that did not result in shutdowns or leaks – documented 956 incidents from 1942 to 2007.
The countries that outrank the US on the global retirement index in terms of coverage, adequacy of benefits, and long-term sustainability have national pension plans in addition to their basic social-security-type programs.
Now that a recession is underway, US and global stock markets are beginning to fall: in a typical US recession, the S&P 500 index falls by an average of 28% as corporate revenues and profits sink.
The Economist’s euro-denominated Commodity Price Index, for example, has actually risen over the last year; it is only the Index in terms of dollars – which is what gets all of the attention – that is down.
For one thing, its purchasing power is already scraping along at a fairly low level globally – indeed, near an all-time low, according to the Fed’s broad dollar exchange-rate index.
In the US, for example, the Standard and Poor’s 500 index in July recorded six days of declines and only three days of increases amounting to more than 1%.
In June, the index dropped more than 1% on four days, and gained more than 1% on two days.
Before that, between the third quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2002, real S&P 500 earnings fell 55% – the biggest-ever decline since the index was created in 1957.
The “buy-on-dips stock market confidence index” that we compile at the Yale School of Management has been falling gradually since 2001, and has fallen especially far lately.
The index is the share of people who answered “increase” to the question, “If the Dow dropped 3% tomorrow, I would guess that the day after tomorrow the Dow would: Increase?
Perhaps the buy-on-dips confidence index has slipped lately because of negative news concerning credit markets, notably the US sub-prime mortgage market, which has increased anxiety about the fundamental soundness of the economy.
Measures to raise the minimum wage and index it to the cost of living are already underway in many parts of the US.
If they glean only one insight from this year’s index, it should be this: “It’s governance and the rule of law, stupid.”
As a result, the most widely followed measure of a trade-weighted dollar index depreciated by 10% last year.
This reflected the dramatic fall in energy prices during the previous year, with the energy component of the consumer price index down 13%.
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