Poverty And Damned Statistics

How economists have it all backwards, in the US and Sri Lanka

Poverty’s increase in the heart of White Empire, via Stephen Semmler

In both America and its capital colony Sri Lanka, economists point to numbers to say people are doing fine. Reduced inflation, etc. As the old medical joke goes, “the operation was a success, but the patient died.” Here’s some numbers to tell you why the conventional statistics are lies. Poverty has increased…