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Topic: big-mac-index

A hamburger

Saturday, 7/4, 12:44 AM

The Big Mac Index: How a Burger Became a Test of the World's Currencies

Since 1986, The Economist has used the price of a single hamburger — the McDonald's Big Mac — to gauge whether the world's currencies are overvalued or undervalued.
It started as a joke, but the Big Mac Index has become a surprisingly useful, and genuinely instructive, lesson in how exchange rates work.

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