Cocaine prices around the world

Re:Cocaine prices around the world by froo on Friday June 26, 2009 @07:12AM (#675262)

"Prices seem to be in $ instead of purchasing power. So not really meaningful, except insofar as it indicates where someone buying with $ would find the cheapest."

I decided to use the Big Mac Index to satisfy your hunger for knowledge (pardon the pun) to figure out purchasing power.

Appropriate Links at the end of the comment. As with my above comment regarding street prices here in AU - it is assumed that the prices are in the local currency, so these figures represent local currencies.

  US - 27.17 big macs
  Canada - 23.71 big macs
  New Zealand - 63.67 big macs
  Australia - 82.61 big macs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displayStory.cfm?st...

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Re:Cocaine prices around the world by pyropenguin on Friday June 26, 2009 @08:26AM (#675326)

With those figures, I think cocaine is a healthier option

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Re:Cocaine prices around the world by joubert on Friday June 26, 2009 @07:14AM (#675266)

Are you using the straight Big Mac Index, or the Working-time Big Mac Index?

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Re:Cocaine prices around the world by eru on Friday June 26, 2009 @09:24AM (#675380)

I guess the straight one. Otherwise he would have given the figure in hours not Big Macs.

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