Marketing for the government? Only a tiny sliver of the population gives these metrics any thought. Certainly politicians don’t. Econometrics is a political lo

Marketing for the government? Only a tiny sliver of the population gives these metrics any thought. Certainly politicians don’t. Econometrics is a political loser; culture wars and other qualitative arguments decide elections. When politicians do bring out numbers, they cherry pick dramatic examples like the price of eggs, not meaningful stuff like CPI or GDP.