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Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi warned that the U.S. economy is on the precipice of recession as weak jobs data and rising ...
Bureau of Labor Statistics head Erika McEntarfer is out because President Donald Trump didn't like the July jobs report.
The other key release that is published by the BLS is the consumer price index that’s published about two to three weeks into the month following, and it is the basis for the inflation gauge that the ...
Upper-class retirees ages 75 and over often spend $10K+ monthly -- far above the $53K average. Despite high spending, many ...
In normal times, the first Friday of the month brings a routine tranche of government data known as the monthly jobs report.
President Trump, unhappy with the latest economic data, fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's bad news.
President Trump is right to raise doubts about the motivations of the government officials tasked with collecting and ...
Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...
Firing Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer will taint any future jobs numbers coming from the agency, ...
Firing the BLS director was an overreaction. And last week’s data had both good and bad news for Donald Trump and his ...
The data influences how much people pay in taxes, receive in retirement benefits and even how much they earn on some ...
Recent payroll revisions have highlighted the challenges facing U.S. statistics agencies. Politics isn’t the issue, ...