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Stop using GDP as a punching bag
Published Mon, May 16, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Washington
IT'S time to cut the GDP some slack. Overhauling the GDP - as some critics would - threatens to politicise one of our most useful economic indicators. It could be twisted to advance or retard political agendas. This is a bad idea.
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