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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 02:50 PM Aug 2020

America, relative to the rest of the world, is more miserable than it was last year

a lot more miserable

A shocker, this is not.

Considering the amount of sick and out-of-work citizens navigating the battered U.S. economy, the latest results from Bloomberg’s Misery Index, which “relies on the age-old concept that low inflation and unemployment show how good a country’s residents feel,” pretty much sums up 2020.

The U.S. fell a whopping 25 spots — more than any other country — to No. 25 on the index. Only Iceland, Israel and Panama even came close to that level of deterioration, Bloomberg reported.

Here’s a look at the top and bottom dwellers on the list:



https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-relative-to-the-rest-of-the-world-is-more-miserable-than-it-was-last-year-a-lot-more-miserable/ar-BB17EvRS?li=BBnbfcN&ocid=DELLDHP
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