By using readily available economic data, I can measure the temperature of the patient, so to speak, to determine just how ...

The Medical Establishment’s Persistent Zeal to Impose DEI in Education Every year, Bloomberg publishes its misery index. The ranking rates 63 national economies by adding a country’s jobless ...

winter misery index AWSSI February 19 2025 A mild winter: In contrast, a swath of the nation's West, upper Midwest and northern New England have had a much milder than usual winter, so far.

Harvard Economist Robert Barro adjusted the existing Misery Index measure and created the “Barro Misery Index” (BMI), in 1999. The BMI sums inflation, unemployment and interest rates ...

It has broadened in recent times to include other economic indicators, such as bank lending rates. The expression “Misery Index” became popular thanks to Ronald Reagan, who used it repeatedly ...

The scores in Bloomberg's Misery Index are based on economists' forecasts for inflation and joblessness in 2020 for 60 economies, in countries for which Bloomberg has sufficient estimates.