There are many indicators you can use to gauge economic health, but for general purposes, average credit score is a good catch-all barometer.
It's worth noting, however, that not all barometers are equal.
By all barometers of public interest--increased sales, enlarged society memberships and larger shows--a rose is a rose is a rose quietly blooming as Southern California's favorite weekend pastime.
In the U.S., it is common to speak of the air pressure in "inches of mercury" and nearly all barometers in the U.S. are graduated in units of inches of mercury and read to the nearest hundredth of an inch, such as "29.93 inches".
By all those barometers, the Giants have been a top-10 defense over the past month.
Around 10% of the S&P 500 companies have reported quarterly earnings, including big names like General Electric, Alcoa and Oracle –all considered barometers for their sectors and the overall market.
Of all the Americas Barometer waves available since 2008, I only use those for 2012 2016.
Many in the theater business speculated during the long death struggle of "Side Show" that Broadway audiences were simply unwilling to see a musical about a subject they considered distasteful, that a kind of mass squeamishness overrode all the old barometers of good reviews, good cast and good word of mouth.
"However, Park View's continued strong achievements across all subjects is a barometer of strong teaching methods and generally contented staff.
But the show is too timid to make that important leap, instead relying uncritically on Biddulph as a barometer of all men's emotional lives.
Lord's is, after all, as accurate a barometer of the cricket-watching public's mood as social media is a tool for calling the result of referendums and the true test for the 24-year-old on this tour was always going to come at the livelier venues around the country.
