WTF GDP
Our Curious Capitalist investigates an idea that I sent him after stumbling upon it over at Boing Boing: linking GDP to numbers that are more directly linked to people's day-to-day lives (apparently known as "non-market activity"). You'll be shocked to learn that the Bush administration has undone one of the few American programs that provides those sorts of metrics.
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