Emilie Mutert

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Best-Ever Super Bowl Ads: Jordan/Bird McDonald's

Jan 26, 2011
I like it because of all the crazy shots. Check out other Super Bowl ads that the Marketplace staff picked here.

Alternative Indicator: Green GDP

Dec 3, 2010
The Green Gross Domestic Product is an economic growth index that quantifies and calculates the environmental consequences of that growth....

Alternative Indicator: The Big Mac Index

Nov 9, 2010
A Big Mac can do much more than satiate our appetite for burgers that require three pieces of bread: it can give us a lens through which to compa...

Alternative Indicator: The Misery Index

Nov 3, 2010
Want to see just how half-empty your country's economic glass is? It's as simple as calculating the Misery Index....

Alternative Indicator: The Genuine Progress Index

Oct 26, 2010
There's more to evaluating a country's well-being than merely looking at GDP - that's why the non-profit public policy institute Redefining...

Alternative Indicator: Brought to You by Google

Oct 12, 2010
Using its massive collection of e-shopping data, Google is working on an index that accounts for a daily measure of inflation. What is it? Ther...

Alternative Indicator: The Happy Planet Index

Oct 7, 2010
The ambitious Happy Planet Index hopes to bring the lives of everyone on the planet into a perspective that balances what's most important to our...

Alternative Indicator: The Human Development Index

Oct 5, 2010
Reminding us that, at the very least, our species is still developing, the Human Development Index attempts to rate and rank countries according ...

Alternative Indicator: The Well-Being Index

Sep 29, 2010
How many people do you have to poll to accurately evaluate a country's well-being? The answer, according to polling giants Gallup and disease man...