it was just an example to say that to build a robust economy that can weather the harshest of conditions one needs a system of transparency that a free press can maintain and question.

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."