“I've hesitated to comment on this nomination, but it's quite obvious Antoni is not qualified. He is worse than not qualified, actually; he is agenda-driven, untrustworthy"

President Donald Trump sparked a wave of alarm and concern on Monday night by nominating Heritage Foundation senior scholar E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Antoni added fuel to the fire surrounding his nomination on Tuesday when he told Fox News Digital he would likely not release more monthly jobs reports until the data issues are “corrected.”

  • JuBe@lemmy.worldM
    4·
    16 days ago

    I locked this it’s post because it’s a duplicate submission and so that comments and replies can be consolidated in a single thread. (This submission had less activity than the other post.)

  • dogerwaul@pawb.social
    8·
    17 days ago

    oh now they’re alarmed. right, sure. i’ll check in with them a month from now when everything is still the same.

  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
    4·
    16 days ago

    If you thought the economy was bad before, just wait for the “cooking the books” era. No sane investors will be keeping their money in a banana republic economy with numbers based on vibes

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    3·
    17 days ago

    I work with BLS data but I predict, at best, we’re about to have a 3 year gap in useful, accurate data. And that’s a shame, it doesn’t get much more accurate than hard records they keep on income and employment (even if the definitions they use are sometimes unuseful, like measuring underemployment.)