The day the economic-statistics numbers died: dementia-addled chaos-monkey Trump's assault on statistical independence. A political purge of America's economic thermometer is not good. Especially since Republican senators have decided to use Trump's outburst to call for "BLS reform".
Especially since Republican senators have decided to use Trump's outburst to call for "BLS reform". & so we watch the Bureau of Labor Statistics becomes the latest casualty in Trumpist America's war on reality. ShareIn a spectacle equal parts farce and tragedy, chao-monkey dementia-suffering cognitively-addled President Trump has sacked the nation's chief labor statistician for reporting unwelcome numbers.
ShareIn a spectacle equal parts farce and tragedy, chao-monkey dementia-suffering cognitively-addled President Trump has sacked the nation's chief labor statistician for reporting unwelcome numbers. The integrity of America's economic data is now gone. The United States just crossed a new Rubicon in the politicization of economic facts.