… in a competition no-one would want to win. In its sovereign risk review, Moody’s has compiled a “misery index” – the addition of the forecast unemployment rate to the forecast fiscal deficit, 2010. It isn’t pretty. The UK’s forecast fiscal deficit – the highest of any country on the chart – places the country in a higher state of misery than Iceland, and only just less miserable than Greece. The top five are not, perhaps, surprising – but numbers six and eight should give us pause for thought.
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