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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[Do government figures tell the truth about the economy? | What a mess.&nbsp; As Kevin Phillips reports in a Harper&#8217;s article, &#8220;Numbers Racket: Why the Economy is Worse Than We Know&#8221; (full text here) government agencies have made scads of tiny, incremental changes to economic statistics over the years that, in the aggregate, have completely changed our basic measures of economic health and wellbeing.&nbsp; What&#8217;s especially troubling: the changes have been consistently biased to make the economic outlook seem rosier...]]></description>
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