Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!eich From: eich@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Ronnie, Ronnie, he's our man... - (nf) Message-ID: <5738@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 03:28:14 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5738 Posted: Sat Feb 18 03:28:14 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 07:14:11 EST Lines: 13 #R:dciem:-66100:uiuccsb:7600090:000:479 uiuccsb!eich Feb 18 01:38:00 1984 Remember the misery index (inflation + unployment), computation of which helped Reagan beat Carter? In 1980 it stood around 21. It is now below 12. mmt, conveniently ignoring inflation, is appropriately vague about what figures are bad, except for the deficit. Citing the deficit (for which the height of Congress is to blame), like citing the stock market, is a sure sign of economic illiteracy. Look for Reagan to use the misery index computation again, to beat Mondale.