Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Airyaman · Tuesday at 11:49 AM

"And I said to my people, slow the testing down please!"

Or in this case, let's not release those jobs numbers every month, m'kay?

Trump's unqualified pick for head of the BLS is suggesting a pause in the release of jobs numbers. After all, it may take some time for him to really cook the books.

Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni, tapped to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, calls monthly jobs data unreliable after recent job downward revision.

www.foxbusiness.com

"How on earth are businesses supposed to plan – or how is the Fed supposed to conduct
monetary policy – when they don’t know how many jobs are being added or lost in our
economy? It’s a serious problem that needs to be fixed immediately," Antoni told FOX
Business.

"Until it is corrected, the BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep
publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data," he said, adding, "Major
decision-makers from Wall Street to D.C. rely on these numbers, and a lack of confidence
in the data has far-reaching consequences."

W_Heisenberg · Tuesday at 11:50 AM

What a shit show. Total clown.

Ikari · Tuesday at 11:52 AM

Well duh, the whole point is to hide statistics and only put out numbers that are beneficial to Trump. This is part of their doublespeak. You can't expect dirty ass commies to be honest.

BitterPill · Tuesday at 12:09 PM

W_Heisenberg said:
What a shit show. Total clown.

Seems like a good show to me, and it is good news we'll never see a bad jobs report again, but it is imperative Trump remains president for the foreseeable future.

MAGA.

SenorXm/Sirius · Tuesday at 12:26 PM

According to Trumpsters Obama lied about the job numbers every month for 8 years... But now there will be silence from Trumpsters about no numbers... Lol

Slartibartfast · Tuesday at 12:32 PM

Yeah that won’t totally exacerbate the coming recession!

noonereal · Tuesday at 12:59 PM

W_Heisenberg said:
What a shit show. Total clown.

Clown, no.

Authoritarian positioning, yes.

noonereal · Tuesday at 1:02 PM

BitterPill said:
we'll never see a bad jobs report again

Yes, those days are over. No more facts making us all woozy.

Stealers Wheel · Tuesday at 1:08 PM

We can expect the same regarding inflation. If the indicators for a recession are not published, we won't have a recession, simple as that.

mrjurrs · Tuesday at 1:35 PM

Airyaman said:
"And I said to my people, slow the testing down please!"

Or in this case, let's not release those jobs numbers every month, m'kay?

Trump's unqualified pick for head of the BLS is suggesting a pause in the release of jobs numbers. After all, it may take some time for him to really cook the books.

Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni, tapped to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, calls monthly jobs data unreliable after recent job downward revision.

www.foxbusiness.com

Is anyone surprised. Assuming the American Republic survives, historians and scientisst will view this time period with disgust.

Callen · Tuesday at 1:45 PM

Of course he will "pause" the numbers as he " looks at the process". Same thing that happened with DHS. Don't like the numbers then bury them.

ElChupacabra · Tuesday at 1:47 PM

W_Heisenberg said:
What a shit show. Total clown.

Yep. This is all about narrative control like you often find in countries with tin horn authoritarians who want to control narratives. If we suddenly get rosy reports on everything, it will be time to not trust government data.

j brown's body · Tuesday at 1:49 PM

In a related matter, I've been begging my slumping Baltimore Orioles to fire their scorekeeper, or at least stop reporting the score.

Roadvirus · Tuesday at 2:09 PM

Airyaman said:
"And I said to my people, slow the testing down please!"

Or in this case, let's not release those jobs numbers every month, m'kay?

Trump's unqualified pick for head of the BLS is suggesting a pause in the release of jobs numbers. After all, it may take some time for him to really cook the books.

Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni, tapped to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics, calls monthly jobs data unreliable after recent job downward revision.

www.foxbusiness.com

Big surprise. He chose a Project 2025 member.

Rexedgar · Tuesday at 2:33 PM

This is from the “if we don’t test, we won’t have any more Covid cases” playbook!

ncguy · Tuesday at 2:42 PM

Outsider with no knowledge of the process and no relevant education or experience claims with no evidence there are significant problems requiring this solution.
Trump continues to be an egotistical economic moron

Callen · Tuesday at 2:50 PM

Roadvirus said:
Big surprise. He chose a Project 2025 member.

Trump did not choose him Vought did......make no mistake about it.

Threegoofs · Tuesday at 3:00 PM

Slartibartfast said:
Yeah that won’t totally exacerbate the coming recession!

What recession? They'll stop reporting GDP numbers too! Cant have a recession without two quarters of negative GDP!

Problem solved!

Trump’s pick to lead labor stats agency could pause monthly jobs report over accuracy concerns

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