Right Data: When Less Is More

When Less Is More

DAVID STOCKMAN, Ronald Reagan’s first budget director, was sent to Siberia when he said of the federal budget process that “Nobody knows where all these numbers come from.” He was right, of course. Yet nearly 15 years later the press and public still regard government numbers as something akin to gospel truth.

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Ed Rubenstein

When Less Is More

DAVID STOCKMAN, Ronald Reagan’s first budget director, was sent to Siberia when he said of the federal budget process that “Nobody knows where all these numbers come from.” He was right, of course. Yet nearly 15 years later the press and public still regard government numbers as something akin to gospel truth.