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Klepper: Economy needs ‘Positively Happy Index’

By   /  Friday, July 20th, 2018  /  Higher Education, Latest news, Op/Eds, Opinion, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Klepper: Economy needs ‘Positively Happy Index’

By William Klepper Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, we had a misery index. This was a combination of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. In the late ’70s and early ‘80s, this index topped out at almost 20 percent. Although no longer tracked, the misery rate would be about 6 percent Read More →