It's hard to get by when you don't have a job and the price of goods keeps rising.
That maxim is behind economist Arthur Okun's dramatically named "Misery Index," which adds together a country's unemployment and inflation rates. The higher the number, the more "miserable" your country is.
With inflation extremely low in much of the developed world, it's worth taking a look at the state of "misery" around the globe. In its new Global Economic Outlook report, Societe Generale put together a chart of how miserable the major global economies are.
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