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Even countries ranked toward the bottom of global corruption indices – for example, Russia and Nigeria – boasted soaring middle-class populations and rising consumer demand.
Significant drops in consumer-confidence indices in Europe and North America already reflect this perverse dynamic.
Most confidence indices today are based on survey questions that ask respondents to assess the economy today or in the near future.
This is a much bigger downswing than was recorded in the overall consumer-confidence indices.
Major stock-market indices hit record highs in September, in the United States and elsewhere, and equity prices are high relative to benchmarks like earnings and dividends.
This concept of “sustainable harmony” can be promoted by publishing indices of personal well-being and environmental preservation, alongside standard GDP data.
In the last decade, GDP growth soared, but most indices of social justice, governance performance, and public welfare deteriorated.
The Stock-Bond DisconnectCAMBRIDGE – How should one understand the disconnect between the new highs reached by global equity indices and the new depths plumbed by real interest rates worldwide?
The Battle of the Bond BenchmarksTOKYO – Some prominent institutional bond investors are shifting their focus from traditional benchmark indices, which weight countries’ debt issues by market capitalization, toward GDP-weighted indices.
The logic behind the move away from traditional bond-market indices is that, by definition, they give a lot of weight to high-debt countries, some of which may be over-indebted and at risk of default.
But, in that case, a portfolio reallocation away from traditional benchmark indices such as the Emerging Markets Bond Index would imply a big shift from simple credit risk toward currency risk.
Purchasing managers’ indices are now threatening the “50” threshold, which has long been associated with the break-even point between expansion and contraction.
We lag in all indices.”
And, in the private sector, there is growing enthusiasm for “green” bonds, loans, indices, and infrastructure investments.
The main house-price indices measure only asking prices and not actual sales prices.
But such data are commonly reported for high-income countries today, including those ranking high on indices of economic prosperity and human development – even Western Europe’s highly developed welfare states.
The Fed on a Tiger’s BackNEW YORK – After two months of volatility in global financial markets, major equity indices in the United States have returned to their peaks.
Businesses have responded negatively to the weakness of household demand, with indices maintained by the Institute of Supply Management falling for both manufacturing and service firms.
Published confidence indices, available since the 1950s, are based on polls that ask consumers or businesspeople about their perceptions of business activity and expectations of future income and employment.
In a 2015 working paper, the economists Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis constructed Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) indices for a dozen countries using digital news archives.
The indices (covering Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States) were created by counting the number of newspaper articles in each country and each month that had the trifecta of terms “economy” (E), policy” (P) and “uncertainty” (U).
The indices spanned decades, and in two countries, the US and the UK, went all the way back to 1900.
They found that their EPU index foreshadows economic contractions in the 12 countries, and that for the two countries with long-term indices, the EPU values were high during the Great Depression.
In 2017, US stock indices rose more than 20%.
At this point, broad indices are in correction territory (meaning a 10% drop from the recent peak), and indices of tech stocks, such as the Nasdaq, are in bear-market territory (a drop of 20% or more).
The fall in world trade volume and equity indices was even faster.
And this phenomenon has been accentuated by the proliferation of passive investing, with the majority of indices heavily favoring outstanding market values (hence, the more debt an emerging market issues, like Argentina, the higher its weight in many indices becomes).
Both the World Bank and the IMF have effective tools for measuring the quality of public spending, and there are a plethora of indices showing how well a country’s governance fares across standard benchmarks.
The unavoidable conclusion, then, is that the ECB will have to abandon the HICP index and use core inflation indices that exclude energy and food prices.
True, it is sometimes argued that central banks should target consumer price indices like the HICP because these better reflect purchasing power and make policy decisions easier to explain.
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