Bizarre Indicators: How Strippers and Dating Apps Predict a Recession

Date:

When the economy is doing well, skirts get shorter: more than a hundred years ago, economists discovered that social phenomena can predict the rise and fall of a country. Why this is so and which bizarre economic indicators – from lipstick to men’s underwear and dating apps – still exist: Krone+ knows all about it.

In 1926, the American economist Wharton Taylor first postulated the “skirt hem theory”, according to which phases of economic recovery lead to a decrease in the average length of skirts and suits worn by women, and vice versa. A study eighty years later we know: Taylor was right, even if the effect was not immediate.

Source: Krone

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Share post:

Subscribe

Popular

More like this
Related

Reform planned – Study: Longer working days no health risk

Long daily working hours for office workers do not...

Template Yes, no coach

Relationship -you -Dold put down a new friend of the “Ex”

A relationship conflict ended on Friday in the Styrian...

New landlord – “We are fighting for the classical NAWORK BEER”

For ten years, the controversial lower Austrian Mario Pulker...