Just how bad is the US recession?

The US government has been fudging its economic statistics in order to convince the public that conditions are rosier than they look - and to implement secret tax increases.

The US government has been fudging its economic statistics to convince the public that conditions are rosier than they look - and to implement secret tax increases, says Richard Benson

No one can ever be too rich, too thin, or too beautiful. We would all like to look into a mirror that tells us that.

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