This public humiliation is not the first time that an imperfect messenger has been discredited entirely because of unethical behavior.

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But now, the dialogue has changed, and for perhaps the first time this winter, it is possible this imperfect union could end.

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And yet the relation between economic data - which are often imperfect, and can only represent the state of an economy as it was some time in the past - and the future is tenuous at best.

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