Old and busted: “Misery Index.” New hotness: “Suffering Index.”
Actually, the two parallel each other using different and important measures. The Misery Index combines CPI inflation and the prevailing interest rate. Gallup’s “suffering index” — they call it the Life Evaluation Index — measures how Americans feel about the present conditions, economic and otherwise.
And brother, they’re not happy about it at the moment. In fact, we feel far worse than we did during the pandemic, according to Gallup.-
[hotair.com]