A gauge that shows how people feel about the economy is showing more ‘misery’ as Trump’s tariffs rattle families and ...

The "misery index" is the addition of the unemployment ... Beyond the unemployment rate, falling gasoline prices are also ...

Bloomberg explains, “Misery index calculations were compiled using the median estimates in Bloomberg economic surveys from the past three months. Figures for 2015 inflation and unemployment data ...

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The original Economic Misery Index was the brainchild of economist Arthur Okun, later refined by Harvard professor Robert Barro. Hanke's methodology attaches a very strong weight to inflation ...

Venezuela easily held to the dubious honour of being at the top of the list of the 2020 Global Economic Misery Index, while Argentina was merely seven notches behind. Weighing inflation ...

The jittery backdrop has brought focus back to an old, simplistic measure of hardship and the economy known as the “misery index,” which bears watching as it has climbed off the lows of the ...

While conceived as a tool for the White House to cut through the noise of economic data decades ago, newer iterations of the misery index still provide an easy way to "keep a finger in the wind to ...