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One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
The latest Eurostat figures on the evolution of the price index for self-produced goods (GDP deflator) show no tendency whatsoever in the crisis-stricken countries towards real devaluation.
Gallup's results, which form the basis of the World Giving Index 2014, indicate that approximately 2.3 billion people, a third of the world's population, perform at least one altruistic act per month.
The United States is consistently ranked among the world's top ten countries for innovation, including by INSEAD's Global Innovation Index.
But, on the Global Peace Index, it is ranked 88th of 153 countries.
Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively, fifth and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.
For one thing, its purchasing power is already scraping along at a fairly low level globally - indeed, near an all-time low, according to the Fed's broad dollar exchange-rate index.
A liquid, cash-settled futures market that is based on an index of home prices in a city would enable a homeowner living there to sell in a futures market to protect himself.
Annan and Gurría also neglected to note that global Accumulated Cyclone Energy, an index for total hurricane activity, is hovering at the lowest values seen since the 1970's.
The Economist's euro-denominated Commodity Price Index, for example, has actually risen over the last year; it is only the Index in terms of dollars - which is what gets all of the attention - that is down.
According to the conventional wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
Since then, the index has climbed above 10,000.
According to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index, the US slipped to fifth place in 2011-2012, from fourth place the previous year, continuing a general downward trend evident since 2005.
Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.
To compare median household incomes over time, the authorities divide these annual dollar values by the consumer price index to create annual real median household incomes.
Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans' standard of living.
To convert annual incomes to real incomes, the CBO used the price deflator for consumer expenditures, which many believe is better for this purpose than the consumer price index.
The authorities arrive at their estimates by converting dollar incomes into a measure of real income by using a price index that reflects the changes in the prices of existing goods and services.
But that price index does not reflect new products or improvements to existing goods and services.
Although its purpose is to help judges and attorneys to understand the science from which legal evidence is derived, its index contains no entry for earthquakes.
Institutional reform must therefore move beyond the BCB's inadequate price-stability target, which is set according to a narrow inflation index that fails to reflect the experiences of ordinary Brazilian consumers.
The Shanghai stock market index soared from 2,200 a year ago to a peak of 5,100 in mid-summer and then dropped sharply, to about 3,000 now.
The index goes from 0 to 10, with 13 sub-indices for overall growth and productivity.
According to the social science citations index, he ranks well among the most important economists since Adam Smith.
Absent large price changes for raw materials, the consumer price index evolves along with the GDP deflator (the price deflator for the entire economy).
The only exception is when monetary policy is conducted in a manner that focuses on the prices of particular goods rather than on stabilization of a broad price index.
This would be unnecessary if Hong Kong adopted a monetary policy aimed at stabilizing a broad price index like the kind of policy pursued in the US, the euro zone, and most of the world.
But can central banks stabilize a falling price index as effectively as a rising one?