Gosling Grouse: Happiness index

GOSLING'S GROUSE

How is your reading of the government's new happiness index, or should it be the misery index?

According to the index if you live and work in London, then you are unhappy, but I have come up with a great new investment idea off the back of all this misery – The Happiness ETF. What drives happiness? Most people would say money – more of it. But is that the root of all of our supposed misery? Do most people dislike Bob Diamond because of the millions of pounds he was paid, or because he did not seem to know much about LIBOR rigging? Do people dislike Fred Goodwin because he earned a lot of money and got a massive pension from RBS, or because he made the disastrous acquisition of ...