February 21, 2023 - I was unfamiliar with the Men’s Underwear Index – the MUI – until I heard it discussed this week on National Public Radio. Perhaps on the Marketplace Morning Report on WAMC. Or some similarly unassailable repository of economic news and analysis. The theory – I believe it was first ...

March 26, 2022 - By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business Former Federal Reserve head Alan Greenspan has a keen interest in men’s underwear. Not because he’s preoccupied with the evolving fashions of nether garments — rather, he sees underwear sales as a key economic predictor.

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March 26, 2022 - Everybody’s talking about the yield curve and what an inversion might mean, but that’s not the only economic indicator analysts rely on. Here are some strange but (semi) accurate ways economists track the health of the US economy.

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March 26, 2022 - Not because he's preoccupied with the evolving fashions of nether garments — rather, he sees underwear sales as a key economic predictor.

Liang also addressed that the Men’s Underwear Index and similar indexes like “yogurt index” and “bread index” could be taken as an economic indicator. Liang was not the first person to come up with the concept. Back in the 1970s, Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal ...

July 5, 2023 - Whenever I get promotional and marketing emails from the Andrew Christian men's underwear line, I have to think twice before opening them in the newsroom.

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September 16, 2023 - The men's underwear index (MUI) is an economic index that can supposedly detect the beginnings of a recovery during an economic slump. The premise is that… | 20 comments on LinkedIn

October 22, 2019 - The “men’s underwear index (MUI)” is an established index to study the state of an economy. Originally conceived by the Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in the late 1970s, the index suggests that a decline in men’s underwear sales hints at a poorer state of an economy.

November 27, 2015 - Men stop buying if they feel uncertain about the future, but spend again when their prospects improve.

Men's underwear is certainly an odd financial indicator. Keep reading to learn why it matters for predicting an upcoming recession.

November 29, 2011 - The Men’s Underwear Index (MUI) Did you know that some economists look to the underwear drawers of American men to determine the health of the current economy? The Men’s Underwear Index (MUI) is an unconventional economic indicator that measures how the economy is performing based on the ...

November 5, 2023 - These creative metrics give unique insights into the complex interplay of economic forces, consumer behaviour and societal trends, are entertaining and, sometimes, surprisingly accurate, but should be interpreted with caution.

April 29, 2019 - It's another way to get briefed on our economy's recovery since the recession.

The men s underwear index (MUI) is one of the more surprising economic indexes that gets most attention during economic slumps to detect the beginnings of a recovery. The premise being that men s underwear are necessity in normal economic times…

May 25, 2011 - As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan was known for using quirky, proletariat metrics to judge the temperature of the economy. The most famous of these, as recounted by NPR's Robert Krulwich in January 2008, were the sales of men's underwear.