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 ...

Our Misery Index includes eight standardized components—unemployment, inflation, GDP per capita, prime lending rate, the Rand’s depreciation, debt-to-GDP ratio, and fuel and electricity tariffs—each ...

Its income per capita, at US$1,600, is way too low, and its Human Development Index (HDI ... First the dot-com bubble, then the subprime lending fiasco: are there signs of another impending ...

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.

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 ...