{"id":13042,"date":"2011-04-10T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:34:35","slug":"sunday-glum-the-most-miserable-places-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/sunday-glum-the-most-miserable-places-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Glum: The Most Miserable Places To Live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inflation and joblessness is taking its toll on Americans. Not the America corporation, but you and I.<\/p>\n

CEOs are again back to their old salaries and above. Companies are the most profitable in history. What that means is that the spread from the rich and the poor is diverging even further.<\/p>\n

From the WSJ:<\/p>\n

The lot of the U.S. consumer hasn\u2018t been a happy one. Weak labor markets, falling home values and, recently, soaring gas prices have gnawed away at confidence. The economic angst was apparent Tuesday when the Conference Board reported its index fell to 63.4 this month, from 72.0 in February. See a map of the misery index. Even so, misery isn\u2018t blanketing the U.S. in equal measure. And gauging local gloom is possible using data collected at the city level. It turns out Boston is coping best. Clouds are darkest in sunny Phoenix. The twin worries depressing consumers \u201d\u201d slow progress on the job front and soaring gas prices \u201d\u201d are reminiscent of the fears of the late 1980s. Back then, a misery index \u201d\u201d the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates \u201d\u201d illustrated the strains on households. In 1980, the index averaged 21%.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click<\/strong> on the image below to see how miserable it is in your neck of the woods….<\/p>\n

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