As a boy George Washington supposedly told his father: "I cannot tell a lie.

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If you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, it will become the truth, no matter how big the lie.

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So they print money to tell themselves and us a lie, just as easy Fed policy and massive purchases of Treasury securities tell the government the lie that it is creditworthy.

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She can describe a past incident and tell a lie, skills once thought to be exclusively human.

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