Showing posts with label misery index. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misery index. Show all posts

Friday, 13 January 2012

Misery index - latest figures

One striking feature of the updated index, however, is that high unemployment now places a number of rich European countries right up there with the most miserable countries in the world—or at least in the 92 for which we have good data.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/01/daily-chart-0

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

UK's misery index


The misery index is the sum of inflation rate and the unemployment rate. Double digits is not good. We are now approaching 16%!
http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/britains-misery-index/