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The context of this one is inflation, and the tracking of it. The statement is that there is an army of government analysts working on it, to get it right.

The reality that I subscribe too (see what I did there?) contains the fact that the government continuously changes the metric from which inflation is measured. And how unemployment is measured. And how much money is in circulation. Until those numbers (and plenty of others) look better than the previous set of numbers.



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