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Which is why the misery index is bogus. If you lived in a period that had a very high "misery index rate" but your net worth was steadily increasing (as it did for most Americans), you cannot be that miserable because you are still benefiting.
However, if your misery index is somewhat high, and your net wealth is 3/4 of what it was only a few years ago, i guarantee you are going to be far more miserable. Unless of course you do not even have a + sign in front of your net worth.
Like the value of their house? Which is greater; 17.5% of $100k or 17.5% of $117.5k?
The argument is, the recession Obama inherited is far more severe than that of Reagan. Try and keep up.
Have you applied numbers of actual individuals to you graphs? Cost of living is a major factor driving consumer confidence as well as the misery index and the cost of living was much higher in the 81-82 recession than it is today therefore misery index isn't bogus at all
The argument that the recession inherited by obama is worse than Reagan's is bogus and the misery index proves it.