Posted on April 12, 2004 by Scott Johnson

The miserable index

John Kerry’s economic braintrust has managed to devise a “middle-class misery index” that places the record of Jimmy Carter well ahead of that of Ronald Reagan. You might say it doesn’t pass the laugh test; even Jodi Wilgoren of the New York Times cannot take it seriously: “Reviving the ‘Misery Index’

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