Selects: What's the misery index?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 23 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Economists love their data because somewhere in the numbers lies the answer to the ills of the country. They also love to frame data in a way people can relate to. Such is the case with the famous "misery index." Learn all about it in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hi everybody, it's Chuck here.
0:35.0	I guess it's time to introduce another Saturday Select.
0:40.3	I'm pretty miserable so maybe I should just do this one on The Misery Index.
0:45.4	It's called What's The Misery Index?
0:49.0	And it's from June 23rd, 2016.
0:54.7	I hope you like it.
0:56.1	It was a lot of fun recording it.
1:01.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
1:11.0	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:12.5	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant.
1:16.6	The W stands for Wayne.
1:18.2	The Wayne Coin.
1:20.2	You pick it to every time.
1:23.1	I know.
1:24.1	It's funny to be 45 years old and named after Wayne going.
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