If the Money Anxiety Index stays below 60.4 by Election Day, Hillary Clinton could become the next president.  If not, Trump is likely to win.
The preliminary September Money Anxiety Index stands at 59.9, down 0.1 point from the final August reading.  The index improved only 0.5 points since January of this year, which points to a persistent level of financial anxiety among people.

The Money Anxiety Index measures various economic indicators and factors associated with consumers’ level of financial worry and stress.  The Money Anxiety Index functions as an early-warning system to shifts in the economy, allowing financial advisors to react in time to changes in the economic cycle.

The Money Anxiety Index Is highly predictive.  It predicted the arrival of the Great Recession over a year prior to the official declaration of the recession in December of 2007.  In the graph below, you can see how consumers’ money anxiety is trending upwards starting in October of 2006.

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Money Anxiety is an insightful behavioral economics and finance book that will help you uncover the mystery of the financial mind.  The book explains why we hate to lose more than we love to win and why we spend when safe and save when scared.

Explore Behavioralogy – a matrix of predictable consumer financial behavior, which categorizes consumer financial behavior in six distinct behavioral patterns.  Each behavioral pattern defines how consumers behave during high, normal and low levels of money anxiety.

The Money Anxiety Index consists of monthly measurement of the level of consumers’ financial anxiety for over 50 years.  It spans from January 1959 to date.  Historically, the Money Anxiety Index fluctuated from a high of 135.3 during the recession of the early 1980s, to a low of 38.7 in the mid 1960s.  The 50-year average is 70.7 (July 1980 = 100).

The Money Anxiety Index was developed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with a large sample size of monthly economic indicators meeting, the required measures of fit.