Commodity prices, a barometer of excessive money creation, are depressed, except for OPEC-manipulated oil.
For 4, 000 years gold has been the best barometer of inflation, the Polaris of stable money.
Emerging sensor technologies like barometer, microbolometers, and chemical sensors will provide even richer user context information.
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Twitter -- the closest thing to an instant barometer of public opinion -- exploded with reaction.
The Forum serves as a useful barometer for how the climate of social enterprise is changing.
But, for a host of reasons, price indexes are not always a reliable barometer.
How to know: Watch the price of gold--still the best barometer of monetary weather changes.
This is not a perfect barometer, but experience demonstrates that it is better than any other.
Unfortunately, Madoff has become the barometer of trust, where skepticism rather than hope is the baseline.
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Gold is the most sensitive barometer, and it has crashed by almost one-third since early 1997.
In four years the price of gold--the best barometer of monetary disturbance--has shot up almost 80%.
Consider the Center for Political Accountability itself as a barometer of the activist sea change.
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The labour market barometer is designed to provide a single figure snapshot of conditions.
There is no objective barometer of truth when it comes to things like video games.
However, not everyone agrees that the rating agencies' verdicts are the best barometer of economic health.
TomTom's Congestion Index is the world's most accurate barometer of congestion in urban areas.
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We agree that investors look primarily at past performance as a barometer of future performance.
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It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
The awards traditionally provide a barometer on movie tastes leading up to the Oscars, held in March.
Perhaps the best, he says, is the Global Corruption Barometer survey by Transparency International, a not-for-profit outfit.
The latest Bank of Scotland labour market barometer, out today, is in line with that positive message.
After all, commodity prices remain depressed as does the price of that most sensitive monetary barometer, gold.
Gold is the most sensitive barometer, and it has crashed by almost one third since early 1997.
Tiffany stock is a barometer of the growing wealth at the very top of the economic pyramid.
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Cash hording by fortune 500 companies is a barometer, but not one of good things to come.
The Iraqi dinar, always a barometer of expectations, has gained 30% on the dollar since the war.
Most people have a built-in barometer that tells them if they are over spending in an expense category.
Bollywood movies, generally a good barometer of social trends, are increasingly depicting cohabiting couples in a favorable light.
One barometer of fairness is the reaction of U.S. District Court judges to cases brought by the SEC.
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"The February barometer showed Scottish job market conditions continuing to improve but at a marginal rate, " he said.
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