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How manipulating the inflation rate played out in Argentina

After President Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Planet Money looks at the case of Argentina, where the government interfered with the country’s top statistical agency to manipulate the inflation rate.

Economists went rogue to try and calculate the real rate, and the population stopped trusting good news, even if it was true.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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