misery index

Even with the West's low inflation, the misery index is already very high.

"The question is going to be, how much are we willing to run up the misery index to save money?"

He is also known as the creator of the misery index.

We heard a lot about change and what happened, that misery index went right through the roof.

I don't want to go back to malaise and misery index.

"The misery index went right through the roof," he said.

And last month, in Atlanta at their convention, there was again no mention of the misery index.

"If the voters reject it, we will just wait until the misery index increases."

Throughout the Reagan boom, however, the health care misery index rose continually.

BUT the misery index may no longer capture the concerns of the middle class.

Still, I think most people would agree that today's misery index is still too high, especially when compared to the late 1970's.

The misery index - the combination of unemployment and inflation - is actually lower now than it was at this point in 1996.

And we had a misery index over 21 percent, unemployment and inflation added together.

In fact, Misery Index is a totally useless measure of anything.

The misery index (the combined percentages of unemployment and inflation) reached new heights.

Economists define the "misery index" as the sum of the unemployment and inflation rates.

The misery index - unemployment and inflation added together - it was invented by the Democrats - went right through the roof.

The high level of the Misery Index heralds a dire winter ahead.

At around 10 the misery index is scarcely half the level it reached in the late Carter and early Reagan years.

Remember the misery index that Jimmy Carter created during the 1976 campaign: unemployment and inflation?

With our full employment and price stability, the misery index has become the ecstasy index.

It was their own personal misery index.

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Brazilian social statistics for the 1980's are incomplete, but it appears that Brazil's overall misery index may have changed little during the decade.

Already the misery index is rising fast.