Over the past 30 years China has experienced perhaps the most impressive economic growth of any country in history. But these impressive growth numbers all come from official government statistics bureaus. How much can we trust the official statistics? 0:00 – 2:22 Intro 2:23 – 3:09 Morning Brew 3:10 – 6:12 Precision versus accuracy 6:13 – 7:14 China’s data collection problems 7:15 – 8:40 Measurement difficulty 8:41 – 10:49 Cooking the books 10:50 – 12:35 Alternative data 12:36 – 16:15 Limitations of alt
