This could be why freedom of speech is the most important liberty. Well, that and the right to own a firearm. One to say what you think to be true, and the other to stop others from shutting you up!
It's no secret that governments fudge and manipulate numbers, but the process has gotten more blatant of late. Argentina has outlawed independent inflation forecasts, and now China has decided that only friendly and "trustworthy" economists or banks should be spoken to. Expect a raft of stories telling us how China's debt problem isn't as bad as imagined.
This could be why freedom of speech is the most important liberty. Well, that and the right to own a firearm. One to say what you think to be true, and the other to stop others from shutting you up!
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AuthorDr. Christopher Hartwell is an institutional economist and President of CASE Warsaw. All commentary on this page is exclusively his own and in no way represents the views of CASE, his wife, his dog, or anyone else. Especially not his wife or his dog. Archives
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