An early mentor once warned me, “If the public knew the truth, the markets would be cut in half.” Decades later the stock market has soared tenfold, but so has the deceit.We have a new administration coming in with a central promise of “truth.” Trump has placed what some call “radicals” in charge of key agencies and departments. The good news: this bold strategy may be the only way to cut through the noise to find the truth. The challenge: the truth sometimes hurts.This is a risk piece and not a political one. We see several potential landmines on the journey toward truth. Our new set of radicals will face countless rabbit holes to explore—like why our life expectancy lags a full five years behind most developed nations, or the reflexive stamp of “classified” on supposedly benign files

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