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Alternative Stats

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Administrations are sometimes tempted to manipulate economic statistics to make them look better. The Trump administration, innovative as ever, is thinking about manipulating them to look worse.

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Update: Slate’s Jordan Weissmann of Slate thinks the Wall Street Journal got the story wrong. 

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Ramesh Ponnuru — Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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