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Argentina is an example of what happens when a country manipulates inflation data

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

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Sally Helm