When potentially good statistics go bad

Gotta call foul on this Conference Board survey that purports to highlight how unhappy we are at work now versus 22 years ago.

You know, 1987, the fifth of seven straight years of real GDP growth of at least 3 percent. The year the unemployment rate dipped below 6 percent for the first time since 1979. The year the S&P -- even after the October crash -- would rise 2 percent and be more than 20 percent above its end-of-1985 close.