Good paper on government number manipulation

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/HarpersMagazine-2008-05-0082023.pdf

Read it, understand it, be less confused when the government is saying everything is just fine and you're looking around going "uh, that doesn't make any sense". Then wish the people had some say in the government, so that we (the people) could force the economic statistics to be computed and maintained by non-governmental entities without implicit conflicts of interest.

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