A recent tweet by Jack Welch alleging that Friday’s jobs report was manipulated has sparked a ton of interest government data, and whether or not it is manipulated, or can be.
In a recent Fiscal Times piece (via Reuters), economist Mark Thoma makes a good defense of US data quality, while noting at the end that there are countries where manipulation does in fact happen.
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