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The index designed to measure economic misery

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Analysts love to track our collective frustration by combining various availability metrics to generate a literal misery quotient. It is a wildly depressing metric designed specifically to quantify our daily struggles in a completely sterile and bureaucratic format.

The index designed to measure economic misery
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