Over My Shoulder

Plastic Surgery for Statistics

By John Mauldin

May 12, 2011

This is a short one-pager from The Economist on how the US massages its data to get a more flattering figure. Nip-tuck, anyone?

Download - US_Debt_Stats.pdf

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