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What a mess. As Kevin Phillips reports in a Harper’s article, “Numbers Racket: Why the Economy is Worse Than We Know” (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. What’s […]http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs_cpi_home.gif?m=Apr08