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‘Trust America’ Trade Under Threat: Why the Jobs Report, BLS Firing, and Fed Resignation Sparked Market Jitters

A so-called “sell America” trade, which led in part to the weakest 7-month stretch for the dollar in five decades, developed ...

Trump economic adviser fires back at NBC host over 'shooting the messenger' claim about BLS firing

WH Economic Council director Kevin Hassett was pressed repeatedly on President Donald Trump's decision to fire the labor ...

Trump to replace fired labor data official this week, impose new tariffs

Trump updated his sweeping "reciprocal" tariff regime last week and once again delayed the effective date, this time by seven ...
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Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

Trump says the Bureau of Labor Statistics orchestrated a ‘scam.’ Here’s how the jobs report really works

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam.” ...

Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump firing BLS head ‘like driving a car with no odometer'

After a weak jobs report on Friday, Trump responded by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But as Nobel ...