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		arcticbull on Oct 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none o... America ranks 23rd on the Perception of Corruption Index. Australia, Canada and the UK are 12th, and New Zealand 1st. [1] [1] https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi

overdrivetg on Oct 9, 2020 | [–]

The name of this index is like clickbait gone awry... Couldn't they have gone for something more like the Perception of Integrity Index since being #1 means "least corrupt"?

arcticbull on Oct 10, 2020 | | [–]

I never thought about it that way, haha, good call-out.

OJFord on Oct 9, 2020 | [–]

How much did it pay for that privilege?

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