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Donald Trump has always had a mixed relationship with numbers. They are at once hard, objective truths that provide explicit measures of success: “huge ratings,” “polling like you wouldn’t believe.” ...
Gold demand surges globally while Americans sell. Silver remains undervalued. Flawed jobs data and inflation stats hide ...
In a move that forms part of his drive to establish a presidential dictatorship, Trump justified the sacking with bogus claims that the numbers had been “rigged” to make him and the Republicans look ...
Trump has a go-to playbook if the numbers reveal uncomfortable realities, and that’s to discredit or conceal the figures and ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...
Thousands of invisible, far-reaching decisions flow from the stream of reports the BLS compiles. When faith in the government ...
By firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, President Trump threatens to corrupt essential financial data that ...
Our government uses the fig leaf of “cultural exchange” to flood the summer job market with tens of thousands of student ...
Trump had previously touted the May and June jobs reports as proof he was 'revitalizing the American economy.' The revised data bursts those boasts.
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman said Tuesday that President Trump “has convinced himself” that jobs data was ...