Category: The Misery Index

Canada’s COVID-19 Experience ‘Far From Positive’: Think Tank’s Response to Trudeau’s ‘Better Pandemic’ Claim

Despite claims by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada “had a better pandemic” than many of its peer countries, data shows that the Canadian experience has been “far from positive,” a think tank says. A news release by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) on March 1 states that Trudeau’s claims do not paint a true picture…


Misery Loves Recessions? The Misery Index Has Elevated Since April 2021

Since the U.S. economy slipped into a technical recession—i.e., two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth—the White House has rejected that the country is in the middle of an economic downturn. President Joe Biden and his administration have alluded to various metrics to suggest that the American people are doing well, be it strong job…