J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Gerd ...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been criticized as a flawed method for measuring obesity — and now a group of experts is sharing new recommendations. BMI is a formula that uses a person's ...

But that goal has never been a great way to measure how much allies really contribute to global security. To understand why, imagine two countries. One spends 2.1 per cent of its GDP on defence ...

They also noted that it should be used only as a 'surrogate measure of health risk', concluding that obesity should be diagnosed using BMI only when supplemented by additional measurements ...

A person with a larger waist-to-hip ratio faces an increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes, regardless of whether or not they are overweight. How to Measure Your Waist Circumference Getting an ...

We develop a new index of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) based on newspaper coverage frequency. Several types of evidence – including human readings of 12,000 newspaper articles – indicate that our ...