Both MSCI and FTSE, major providers of financial indexes, have also created fossil-free or low-carbon indexes in response to demand from investors.
The right algorithms can crunch this information into almost any context, from credit scores to health and motor insurance premiums; from indexes of employability and influence to net worth.
Optimists are more active, they say, and have better body mass indexes.
Instead it indexes losses carried forward by an arbitrary bond rate plus 7%, which is a subsidy for very well endowed mines and a tax on high risk mines.
Markets worldwide are having a rotten day, and European indexes just closed down between 4% and 5% on the day.
ESWAR PRASAD (of Cornell and the Brookings Institution and occasionally Free exchange) and his Brookings collaborator Karim Foda have developed a new series of indexes they call TIGER (Tracking Indexes for the Global Economic Recovery).
But core prices for intermediate and crude goods actually fell in July, while intermediate and crude food indexes soared.
"Voir Paris" (FFr145) has good maps and indexes; Gallimard's "Paris" (FFr144) provides more historical and cultural background, with useful, at-a-glance charts of closing days and late-night opening hours for the main museums, while its "Paris Secret" (FFr125) explores crypts, little-known museums and secret gardens.
And the Fed's indexes of industrial production and capacity utilisation were completely flat from May to June.All of which is to say that the labour market can't turn around a moment too soon.
Problems—"the diseases of prosperity"—include obesity, environmental pollution and waste.Several indexes already try to go beyond GDP, such as the Human Development Index and the Happiness Index.
A DAILY round-up of economic news:The latest price indexes out of America's Labor department seemed fairly benign, but a new release on consumer inflation from the Commerce department suggests that the country's economic slowdown hasn't yet taken the air out of inflation.
