David Baldacci Quote
There’s a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he’ll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who look at the exact same data and interpret it in widely disparate ways on everything from the federal budget deficit to the Social Security surplus. Meaning that data can be manipulated. Of course it can, depending on who’s paying the meter and whose political agenda is being furthered,
David Baldacci
There’s a phrase that critics of economic forecasting like to use: Give an economist a result you want, and he’ll find the numbers to justify it. This entire city is filled with number crunchers who look at the exact same data and interpret it in widely disparate ways on everything from the federal budget deficit to the Social Security surplus. Meaning that data can be manipulated. Of course it can, depending on who’s paying the meter and whose political agenda is being furthered,
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