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    Feb 25, 2019 2 minutes

    he Economist’s famous Big Mac Index was invented as a way of judging what the exchange rate between two currencies ought to be. If a Big Mac costs a dollar in the US and three kronor in Sweden (a third difference) but the actual exchange rate is 50 percent then it follows that the dollar is overvalued.

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