Ruminations

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Month: August 2015

  • Misery Index

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    Kyle
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    Remember the Misery Index? Misery Index is just unemployment rate + inflation rate. Ronald Reagan campaigned on it when it hit an “outrageous 21%” in 1979. Since then the govt has just been making ever more elaborate lies about what the numbers are. See this good article – http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/our-phantom-economy , and the first comment: real…