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Forums - General - 24 Year high on the U.S. Misery Index.

U.S. Inflation + Unemployment = Misery Index.

http://www.miseryindex.us/

http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbyyear.asp

1984 11.81
1985 10.74
1986 8.91
1987 9.84
1988 9.57
1989 10.09 Bush, G.H.W.
1990 11.01
1991 11.10
1992 10.52
1993 9.87 Clinton
1994 8.71
1995 8.40
1996 8.34
1997 7.28
1998 6.05
1999 6.41
2000 7.35
2001 7.59 Bush, G.W.
2002 7.37
2003 8.26
2004 8.21
2005 8.48
2006 7.87
2007 7.46

11.3% July 2008

 

 



I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.

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I believe it.

I'm still trying to find out why Bush was so good with the Gini Co-Efficent despite this. I can't find a plausable theory for this.



I just read an interview where a guy said that when Regan first took office, the top 1% owned 8% of the wealth in the country, but today they own 25%.



The Ghost of RubangB said:
I just read an interview where a guy said that when Regan first took office, the top 1% owned 8% of the wealth in the country, but today they own 25%.

That's what America is based on, duh!

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

^I believe, WW, the top 1% own 80% of the wealth.



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The Ghost of RubangB said:
I just read an interview where a guy said that when Regan first took office, the top 1% owned 8% of the wealth in the country, but today they own 25%.

That's Clinton's fault.

Seriously.  If you look at the Gini Coeeficient it rised largest during Clinton.  Reagan was the second largest.

In 1994 there was an unexplainable huge jump...

Bush amazingly has the Gini Coeeficient right about where Clinton left it.  He was oddly good for the gap between the "rich and poor'.

It was rising... then dropped off suddenly in 2007.

Guess his crappy economy has hit the rich harder... or something.  Can't explain it... but it's true.