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Professor Steve Schifferes: Government figures provide 'considerable scope for confusion or spin'
We are going to try and an make figures and numbers be your friendProfessor Steve Schifferes
We are going to try and an make figures and numbers be your friend
We found in some of the financial scandals, starting with Enron, it was only in the accounts that we discovered some of these slightly dubious accounting vehicles where they hid some of their losses
It's an easy thing for journalists to get caught up in and just accept the government figures
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