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一家创业公司付钱来让世界各地的人们每天记下当地商店里的货物价格。这提供了一种实时追踪经济现状的方式。9月初,新闻媒体报道称,印度的洋葱价格突然飙升,比一年前上涨了近3倍。分析人士警告称,这种主要食品的价格跃升可能预示着一场经济危机的来临。印度研究银行迅速提高了利率。如果当时已经有了Premise这家创业公司,那么人们对印度洋葱危机的反应还会更及时。这家公司用新方式来自下而上地追踪全球经济,汇集了来自印度各地商店洋葱价格的每日记录。全球各地有700多人使用一项移动应用程序记录下当地主要商品每天的价格。
A start-up pays money to keep people everywhere in the world recording the prices of goods in local shops. This provides a way to track economic real-time in real time. In early September, news media reported that the price of onion in India suddenly soared, nearly three times higher than a year ago. Analysts have warned that a jump in the prices of such staples could signal an economic crisis. Indian research bank quickly raised interest rates. If there was already a Premise startup then there would be more immediate reaction to the Indian onion crisis. The company uses a new approach to bottom-up tracking the global economy, bringing together daily records of onion prices from stores across India. More than 700 people around the world use a mobile app to record the daily prices of major local products.