1.0 link 113328 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-tepper-marlin/misery-index-highest-sinc_b_113328.html Wall Street indexes rise and fall but the economic misery index goes on forever as a guide to what is happening on Main Street. I therefore think it is well worth watching. The index, simply the sum of unemployment and inflation rates, rose in June to 10.5, the highest level in 15 years, i.e., since January 1993. That month President Bill Clinton was inaugurated and President G.H.W. Bush left office. Under Clinton the index improved but it has recently climbed...

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