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by  Alex Tabarrok

The Statistics Police are on the case in England.  This could give the term cluster#%@! a whole new meaning.

How Peru used birdsh!t to pay its debt. 

What happens if you tickle a gorilla?

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bbartlog

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So credibility in government statistics in the UK is low enough that the government feels it necessary to put on a dog and pony show to try to convince the public that they aren't actually lying through their teeth all the time. Transparency (in the data) plus bloggers is a better solution to the problem as stated, but since the real goal is is apparently just to improve the public trust while maintaining government control of the oversight mechanism I suppose that wouldn't actually do.

anonymous

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A better title for the paper would have been "Sovereign debt: here today, guano tomorrow"

Careless

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"The word "guano" originates from the Quichua language of the Inca civilization and means "the droppings of sea birds". "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano

bk

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see, the exclamation mark means that it's not shit so it's not a naughty word. But I think he meant shit.

mulp

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How about a companion paper, Nauru and Capitalism, Guano to Serfdom.

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