September 12, 2025
As a shorthand gauge of our well-being, the Misery Index is a handy way to judge how inflation and employment could affect us.
October 21, 2024
Because President Lyndon Johnson asked for a shorthand look at economic happiness, we wound up with the Misery Index.
December 26, 2023
If Argentina's inflation numbers cliimb, so too will the distortions in people'e behavior as their spending incentives change.
November 13, 2023
Looking at our happiness through an economic lens, our metric can be a Misery Index composed of inflation and unemployment.
December 23, 2021
With a renewed need to launder tattered U.S.dollar bills, we have the return of Zimbabwe inflation and their problematic monetary policy.
May 14, 2021
To solve the mystery created by the inflation worries that are in the news, we can look at sticky and flexible prices.
March 14, 2021
January 20, 2020
July 14, 2019
Whereas we moved from many time zones to four during the 19th century, now, with globalization, we should switch to coordinated universal time for everyone.
February 7, 2019
Through six simple facts, we can better understand the meaning of Venezuela's hyperinflation and how much it has diminished production.
August 21, 2018
Calming the everyday monetary chaos created by Venezuela's hyperinflation is about much more than lopping zeros off its currency.
April 13, 2018
The economic way to demonstrate sadness is to look at misery indexes that use macro data to measure changes in our emotions.