The greatest triumph of the Big Mac index has been in tracking the euro.
Showing us the dark magic that goes into photographing a cheeseburger or making a Big Mac?
Imagine: One day, you're a gangly 14-year-old girl scarfing a Big Mac at McDonald's.
These two stand out as emerging-market currencies that trade well above their Big Mac PPPs.
In other words, the yuan is overvalued and not undervalued as the Big Mac index suggests.
Everybody, that is, except the Big Mac index, which suggested that the euro started off significantly overvalued.
The Economist's Big Mac index offers a crude estimate of how far exchange rates are from PPP.
What McDonalds is saying is that if I want a Big Mac I can just do it myself.
Their model is to serve you the same Big Mac, fries and Coke the President can get.
What might a bigger Big Mac without the bun and fries do to beef, wheat and potato prices?
And for the record, he recommends the McRib over the Big Mac too.
It is striking that a Big Mac hamburger now costs about 30% less in Tokyo than in mid-town Manhattan.
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And ditto for my love of fast food and the occasional Big Mac.
One section explores the International Big Mac, a montage highlighting slogans and images from the 100-plus countries where the sandwich is sold.
The Brazilian real is one of the few emerging-market currencies that is trading well above its Big Mac benchmark.
The Big Mac numbers should be taken with a generous pinch of salt.
Some readers beef that our Big Mac index does not cut the mustard.
But the euro has instead tumbled exactly as the Big Mac index had signalled.
The hospital will not renew the lease with the Big Mac maker when it expires, said clinic spokeswoman Eileen Sheil.
They restored the more expensive ingredients to the Big Mac sauce and changed the salt-and-pepper seasoning in the beef patties.
The Economist's Big Mac Index, a light-hearted guide to how far currencies are from fair value, provides some answers.
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Our basket contains just a single representative purchase, but one that is available in 120 countries: a Big Mac hamburger.
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Yet it turns out these foods are worse for you than even a Big Mac and fries ( 1050 calories).
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Even the humble Big Mac, a lightweight by modern standards, contains 540 calories, exactly the same number as the Double Down.
It was heard Monday night by a neighbor who had just returned from McDonald's with a half-eaten Big Mac in hand.
Tinkering with recipes for basic items like the Big Mac special sauce had saved pennies but turned off loyal Mac fans.
In Seoul, the Big Mac has to compete with Burger King's Whopper, Lotte Burger (a local rival) and South Korean alternatives.
"It was a fastball in the middle of the zone, " Beltran said of the 437-foot blast that landed in Big Mac Land.
The vision of Jordan as a miserable sandwich, squeezed between Iraq and America, could come to look more like a Big Mac.
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