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The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is one of those rare corners of government that is indispensable and should be dull.
Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a giant picture of Adolf Hitler’s favorite battleship in ...
Macro investors are trying to make sense of President Donald Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics plan.
E.J. Antoni, tapped by President Trump to serve as the nation’s top economic data official, appears in Capitol Police ...
Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...
The appointment of E. J. Antoni, to what is supposedly a non-partisan position in the administration, is another significant ...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has reignited concerns about political interference in future jobs data after saying the independence of statistical agencies was “nonsense” and the main focus should ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended releasing monthly jobs reports amid accuracy concerns, emphasizing the need for ...
The BLS has failed to modernize, and its methods are deficient. The jobs number and its revisions do not meet accepted ...
Donald Trump got some positive economic data — even if dissing the July jobs report and firing the BLS head may have cost him ...
Trump's job creation is so bad that he wants the BLS to issue a jobs report quarterly instead of monthly, as if that's gonna help.
Political interference in economic data threatens the business foundation that companies depend on for planning, forecasting, ...