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Visual Aid: The Price of a Big Mac Across the World

By Darren Atwater | Sunday 28 July 2024


 


What can a Big Mac tell us about currency rates? As it turns out, quite a lot.

The Big Mac Index, created by The Economist in 1986, started out as a simple tool to make currency theory more digestible. Now, it’s a widely-known measure in popular economics to assess and compare currency valuations.

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