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President Trump has said he will choose a new Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics within the next three to four ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...
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 ...
Janet Yellen, the former Treasury secretary and chair of the Federal Reserve, described the firing to the New York Times as “ the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic .” ...
Trump’s decision to dismiss Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) chief Erika McEntarfer was taken on Friday afternoon, just ...
The monthly jobs report is already closely-watched on Wall Street and in Washington but has taken on a new importance after ...
President Trump fired the BLS commissioner after accusing the agency of rigging job numbers. The firing follows sharp ...
President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...
The top job at Bureau of Labor Statistics typically goes to an economist experienced in govt or academia. Now it also requires the ability to walk a tightrope ...
Yesterday, the president of the United States appeared without explanation on the roof of the White House, walked aimlessly ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...