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Breach described High Streets as one of the most "visible barometers" of how a local economy is faring, saying where High Streets are performing badly voters expect intervention which requires more than cosmetic change.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

But the results of the blended data approach have been more timely, comprehensive indicators that closely track the official barometers.

From Barron's • Nov. 22, 2025

More recent employment barometers, meanwhile, suggest companies are not hiring many people.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

Ranganath also says that our loved ones can be our best barometers of how we're doing cognitively.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2024

Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong