Day 1,402: purport

China’s official debt figures purport to be healthy even as the central government prepares to bail out a province.

Governments are living in a fiscal fantasyland

Artwork of the day 
Dmitri the Pretender's agents murder the Son of Boris Godunov
Konstantin Makovsky
Original Title: Агенты Дмитрия Самозванца убивают сына Бориса Годунова
Date: 1862
Style: Romanticism
Genre: history painting
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Word of the day 
purport: to pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe

Quote of the day
“As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, “The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success