The Carter years expanded our economic lexicon with the concepts of Stagflation and the Misery Index.
The Misery Index was cut in half and the team would be in power for twelve years.
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That explains why unemployment correlates almost perfectly with the Misery Index.
That honor goes to France at 193% --seven points higher than when FORBES GLOBAL last published these figures ("The Misery Index, " FORBES GLOBAL, Dec. 28, 1998).
He cut the misery index in half.
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Economist Arthur Okun developed the original Misery Index in the 1960s.
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What does the housing misery index mean for the election?
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Any housing speeches for Super Tuesday (March 6) should be given on the trail in Idaho or Georgia, which have the highest housing misery index of the many states voting that day.
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The sum of their coordinates maps the "misery index, " unemployment plus inflation.
Top ten states ranked by the housing misery index are shown.
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One test will be the political urge to soak the rich with higher levies--Australia's top personal income tax is already in the upper reaches of our annual Misery Index.
Taken together, the reforms promise to knock Germany's Misery Index figure from 143% to under 124% --a huge competitive boost.
For now the tax picture, as was reflected in our annual Misery Index of combined top marginal rates, has darkened.
However, some states have delinquency and foreclosure rates that are out of line with price declines: Florida, New Jersey, New York, Illinois and other states where foreclosures must go through the courts have more homes stuck in foreclosure than states with similar price drops, boosting their misery index scores.
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