Thanks for chiming in. I thought you’d like that post. I’d be very interested to see your 12-month forecast. I’m not that brave.

“The Venezuelan president isn’t alone in suggesting traditional economic-output measures are too rigid. French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently said his country, in addition to measuring GDP, would start gauging prosperity by including factors such as vacation time, health care and family relationships.” (from the WSJ article)

Not quite the same thing as Jimmy Carter’s “misery index,” combining unemployment and inflation rates, is it? (I wonder what *that’s* going to look like twelve months from now.)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/tguide/index.html