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Senior White House officials say there’s no plan to suspend the crucial monthly jobs report, shooting down an idea espoused ...
E.J. Antoni, the conservative economist President Donald Trump named Monday as his pick to lead the nonpartisan Bureau of ...
Key Takeaways Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics proposed temporarily halting publication of the monthly jobs report, although a White House spokesperson cast doubt on the ...
Fed officials also disagree on how tariffs will affect inflation going forward. Many increasingly believe the duties will ...
U.S. hiring is slowing sharply as President Donald Trump’s erratic and radical trade policies paralyze businesses and raise ...
Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...
Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...
Trump has repeatedly lambasted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (who’s a banker, not an economist) for refusing to cut ...
Costs were sharply on the rise for producers and manufacturers in July, a sign that higher prices could soon filter down to American consumers.
The head of the agency responsible for producing U.S. jobs and inflation data is usually a low-profile technocrat with deep ...
The Federal Reserve is poised to lower interest rates in September. But signs of stickier inflation could limit how much ...
The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about ...