I was stunned last week when President Trump ordered the firing of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after ...

Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

But Trump’s firing of the BLS chief escalated his administration’s attack on information. Though researchers who rely on ...

President Trump claims the Bureau of Labor Statistics revised a 2024 jobs report downward after the election. The opposite is true.

Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

Whether to trust the economic data is the big question for many investors.

Trump said in an interview with CNBC that he had removed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from consideration for Fed chair ...

Government economic data can no longer be trusted or relied upon under this administration. That has consequences.

President Donald Trump was laughed at and fact-checked live on CNBC during a wild phone interview in which he claimed the ...

P resident Donald Trump doubled down on claims that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had “ rigged ” jobs data during a Tuesday ...