Few thing are more transparent than a bad lie. To wit: One expects the party out of power to manipulate data to reflect a bad economy, and the party in power to do the opposite. However, amidst claims that the economy is rebounding, one left-leaning report says it is not so. It attributes high unemployment and low wages to “a badly wounded economy recovering at a slow pace;” and cites that data as evidence that government needs to do more of what it has been doing.