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Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...
Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is ...
Treasury Secretary Bessent defended President Trump's decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) head Erika McEntarfer after unprecedented downward revisions to May and June jobs figures ...
Last week, President Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in apparent retaliation for weak jobs ...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said the significant downward revisions to the monthly jobs numbers could point to an ...
Risks to the job market have increased, but it remains too soon to commit to interest rate cuts before the next meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve with key data still to come and inflation still ...
Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council and one of the so-called “two Kevins” that may be the next chief ...
Neither Presidents Kashkari or Daly—nor Governor Cook—dissented at the July meeting. With Governor Chris Waller and FOMC ...
Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...
Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.
President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change how the Census Bureau collects data, seeking to ...