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What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example
Echoes of the Argentine experience have reverberated in the U.S. since Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
Why Trump says the US jobs report is 'rigged': How the numbers are actually calculated
US President Donald Trump labelled the latest US jobs report as "rigged" following significant downward revisions to May and ...
Trump was correct to fire BLS chief after data became ‘increasingly unreliable,’ says former Trump advisor
Economist Steve Moore discusses President Donald Trump’s economic policy and ‘correct’ firing of a Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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US Jobs report confirms 'signs of fragility' in market: Fed official
A recent US employment report confirmed "signs of fragility" in the labor market, a senior central bank official said on ...
Trump's firing of BLS chief may undermine public trust in jobs numbers, New Mexico economists say
After President Donald Trump, angered by a weaker-than-normal monthly jobs report, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming she had distorted the numbers for political gain, the New ...
Trump’s Firing Of The BLS Commissioner Is An Ongoing Trainwreck And Embarrassment
Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...