The New Misery Index

http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-new-misery-index.html

Central-planning always leads to ginned-up phony statistics, because centrally planned economies always stagnate due to corruption, malinvestments, and some are more equal than others skims and scams by insiders, cronies, cadres and apparatchiks.
 

The Status Quo is desperate to mask the declining fortunes of those who earn income from work, and the Misery Index 2.0 strips away the phony facade of bogus unemployment and inflation numbers.

Misery Index drives gold demand

http://www.usagold.com/amk/specialreportoct2011.html