President Donald Trump‘s latest trade policy memo could find unexpected support from an unlikely source—McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) ...

The Philippine peso is still undervalued by 50% against the dollar, according to the latest update of the Big Mac Index released by The Economist. As of January 2025, a Big Mac costs $5.79 in the ...

So in 2013 we created our own Mini Mac Index, which compares the price of iPad minis across countries. Minis are a global product that, unlike Big Macs, can move quickly and cheaply around the world.

One snag in applying this theory is finding exactly the same things to purchase in both countries. McDonald’s solves that ...

Michael "Jim" Delligatti came up with the idea for a double-decker burger and first introduced it in one of his McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania in 1967. The sandwich soon became a success, and in ...

The Economist’s Big Mac Index, a longstanding measure of currency values, shows China’s yuan may be substantially undervalued against the dollar—exactly the kind of disparity that has caught ...

The Big Mac has become an economic benchmark In 1986, The Economist unveiled the “Big Mac index,” which acts as a “lighthearted guide to whether currencies are at their ‘correct’ level ...

The McDonald's Big Mac is an icon in the fast food world, but how well do you know its history? Check out these facts that ...

The iconic burger, which serves as the foundation of the Big Mac Index – a global measure of purchasing power parity – tells us more about South Africa's economic landscape than most policy ...