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The error, even if it is only a typo, is galling because it is in an important data release, and also comes in the wake of Friday’s admission by the government that another mathematical error made it overstate the country’s export data by $9.4 billion. Mint’s resident wag sees a disturbing trend in this that doesn’t bode well for the next release of economic data: “Sorry guys, the dog ate the GDP data."

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