Eleven venues plotted by true distance from the Pentagon. Rings at one, two and three miles.
Dot area = current reading · Ring = at or above 50%
Normal activity levels.
Eleven venues plotted by true distance from the Pentagon. Rings at one, two and three miles.
Dot area = current reading · Ring = at or above 50%
Mean busyness of the pizza venues currently reporting. Carries 70% of the composite.
Mean bar busyness. Outside 5pm–2am ET it carries no information and is excluded.
Venues individually above half capacity. Five must be reporting, and a majority hot, before this boosts the score.
Venues returning usable data. 10 of 11 are live crowd estimates rather than Google's typical-week model.
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The events people check this index for, priced by people with money on them. Sourced live from Kalshi.
Links to Kalshi are affiliate links and we may earn a commission. Kalshi is a CFTC-regulated exchange and does not operate in AZ, IL, MD, MA, MI, MT, NV, NJ, or OH. Event contracts carry risk of loss. Nothing here is financial advice. These markets resolve over months and are not correlated with, derived from, or predictive of today's activity readings.
Half-hourly readings around the clock, midnight at the top. The pale spoke is now. Dim spokes past it are this venue set's eight-week average for that hour — the shape of an ordinary day, not a forecast.
— = no reading · 0% = open and empty
All venues →This is a folk indicator with no established predictive value. It has never been validated against real events, and it cannot be. A high reading means several tracked restaurants are busier than usual while bars are not — nothing more.
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Defence and foreign-affairs headlines, so you have the actual news to hand. We are not claiming any of it moved the index — the reading above is restaurant traffic, nothing more.