"Two sets of books"

Las estadísticas soviéticas hicieron escuela en Argentina, y ahora estan prendiendo en USA. Nota en Powerline :

Michael Boskin, an economist at Stanford and head of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George H.W. Bush, has written a very important piece about abuse of data by governments. There is a long history of egregious abuse in some nations. As Boskin recalls:

When President George H.W. Bush sent me to help Mikhail Gorbachev with economic reform, I found out that the Soviet statistics office kept two sets of books: those they published, and those they actually believed (plus another for Stalin when he was alive).

And the U.S. government has not been immune from relatively minor abuses. "Every president is guilty of spinning unpleasant statistic," says Boskin.

However, Boskin argues that President Obama has taken this phenomenon "to a new level." [...]

[...] The damage from Obama's abuse of data is not limited to the likelihood that bad decisions have been, and will be, implemented under false pretenses. The greater damage is to the credibility of the office Obama holds. As Boskin puts it, "squandering. . .credibility with these numbers games will only make it more difficult for our elected leaders to enlist support for difficult decisions from a public increasingly inclined to disbelieve them."

But then, reckless disregard of truth and consequences is becoming the hallmark of this administration.

Cualquier semejanza con la Argentina del Indec, yada yada yada ya saben el resto.