5 responses to “In the Company of Misery”

1. 

   stonetools

   March 3, 2015 at 9:17 am

   Haiti isn’t on the list? No African countries?
   List seems suspect for that reason.
2. 

   gVOR08

   March 3, 2015 at 9:19 am

   Two casual observations:
   – This is pretty much a made up statistic.
   – Bloomberg failed to note either the 15 least “miserable” countries, or the position of the US. One is allowed to assume that those would not support Bloomberg’s prejudices.
3. 

   Neil Hudelson

   March 3, 2015 at 9:25 am

   I’m guessing this chart cuts out all those countries whose unemployment rate or price indices, essentially, can’t fall any farther–DRC, Somalia, etc.
4. 

   Gromitt Gunn

   March 3, 2015 at 1:41 pm

   @stonetools: It is likely that the governments of many of those countries simply do not track one or the other metric.
5. 

   Franklin

   March 4, 2015 at 10:14 pm

   @stonetools: I guess South Africa isn’t part of, uh, Africa?