Mises Daily
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Morgan O. Reynolds
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Gene Epstein, Econospinning: How to Read Between the Lines When the Media Manipulate the Numbers . Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006 “Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.” — George Orwell Economists are familiar with the cliché “lies, damned lies and statistics,” which puts statistics at the top of the