A new gauge of household “misery” that includes mortgage rates has been moving in a worrisome direction that could mean ...

The "misery index" adds up the rates of unemployment and inflation. In the past, it's been a good indicator of whether a president will be reelected. But there are signs the gauge may now be broken, ...

Our economy has rarely been able to simultaneously attain a low unemployment rate and price stability. Back in 1976, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential candidate, made this a very potent ...

In the 1970s, in the wake of the international oil price crisis, the United States suffered from a prolonged period of high inflation and high unemployment, which came to be called stagflation. This ...

Rob Reiner auditioned many big names for Misery (1990) before casting Kathy Bates, then a relatively unknown theater actress. Stephen King called her performance “perfect,” & she became the first ...

Misery loves company or so the saying goes. In the current recession, it is more accurate to say that misery creates company. Millions of households struggle amid the onslaught of rising health care ...