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jpak

(41,758 posts) Fri Aug 10, 2018, 07:20 PM Aug 2018

Bring back the "Misery Index"

Soaring inflation

Contracting wages

Tariff woes

Fake tax cut

Rising oil prices

Stick it Trump and the GOP.

yup

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Bring back the "Misery Index" (Original Post) jpak Aug 2018 OP

Here you go. MarvinGardens Aug 2018 #1

MarvinGardens

(779 posts)

1. Here you go.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri Aug 10, 2018, 08:53 PM

Aug 2018

The original index is Unemployment plus Inflation.

http://miseryindex.us/indexbymonth.aspx

Looks like it bottomed out about a year ago, and began rising a few months ago. The tariffs should cause it to rise substantially, I think.

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