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July 17, 2025
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July 17, 2025
What We Can Learn From a Big Mac

Because the Big Mac is almost identical in different nations, it is a handy way to compare currencies and wages.

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August 16, 2024
Big Mac Index and global inflation
August 16, 2024
What A Big Mac Can Teach Us

More than a list of burger prices, the Economist's Big Mac Index lets us compare different currencies' purchasing power.

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December 15, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Comparing LEGO prices
December 15, 2022
What We Can Learn (About Money) From a LEGO

Like the Big Mac Index, when the Toy Zone tells us where LEGO prices are high and low, we can also compare currencies.

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August 26, 2022
big Mac prices
August 26, 2022
What We Can Learn From a Big Mac

Through its twice-yearly Big Mac Index, The Economist shows us what we can learn locally and globally from burger economics.

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August 23, 2022
Weekly Economic News Roundup and perverse incentives
August 23, 2022
A New Way To Measure the GDP

We can identify new GDP facts about size and wellbeing by seeing the GDP through the PPP lens of the International Comparison Program.

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January 17, 2021
Big Mac Index and global inflation
January 17, 2021
A Big Mac Mystery

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August 13, 2020
Big Mac Index and global inflation
August 13, 2020
What Can We Learn From a Big Mac?

About much more than just a burger, the Big Mac Index can help us compare purchasing power and the GDP in different countries.

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January 20, 2020
Venezuela's hyperinflation
January 20, 2020
Why Venezuelans Might Launder (In a Washing Machine) Their Dollars

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March 5, 2017
minimum wage debate
March 5, 2017
What We Can Learn From Big Mac Prices

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February 14, 2015
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Weekly Roundup: From New Drachma to Old Monetary Dilemmas

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February 8, 2015
minimum wage debate
February 8, 2015
Where to Spend the Most on a Big Mac

Displaying foreign exchange fluctuation, the price of a Big Mac in different countries can be compared to show if a currency is over- or undervalued.

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