Silly Counterfeiting Statistics, Bloomberg Edition
Oh, look! Another article filled with counterfeiting statistics! This one's from Bloomberg, it's 1,300 words long, and is the work of four journalists (Allan Dodds Frank, Jaime Hellman, Elizabeth Lopatto, and Wendy Soong) as well as four editors (Michael Waldholz, Jeffrey Tannenbaum, Antony Michels, and Karin Annus). Did it occur to any of these people to treat the numbers they were given with a little bit of skepticism? Of course not. Instead, as is SOP in such stories, everything is painted in the most alarming possible manner.
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