Inflation has cooled and the unemployment rate has stayed low, but it seems plenty of people are still gloomy about the ...

By using readily available economic data, I can measure the temperature of the patient, so to speak, to determine just how “miserable” or “healthy” an economy is. The idea of a misery index was ...

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 ...

OPINION: Liam Dann takes a deeper dive into the week's economic news.

The country’s adjusted misery index dropped to 18.5% last year from 22.2% in 2023, based on latest data available from the Philippine Statistics Authority. In 2024, the underemployment rate hit an all ...

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 ...

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.