Econ 201 - Cooking Lessons

"... there is a lot of data manipulation going on. It seems as if government officials and private sector analysts find a way to exclude everything under the sun to produce a desired result." http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_baum&sid=a6LgRSqwBRoY
And http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2005/07/gdp_yet_another.html#trackback