Posted: Submitted by wtanaka (648) on Mon, 2005-09-05 08:43. | Subject: Noodles Measure Economy

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050905/ap_on_bi_ge/thailand_noodle_index
Zitat:

When the economy gets bad, the sales of Mama, the country's top-selling brand of instant noodles, shoot up, according to economists and businesspeople quoted by The Nation newspaper Sunday.