On Friday, President Trump announced that he was firing Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Earlier that day the BLS had issued its monthly national jobs report, which showed ...

Fed officials also disagree on how tariffs will affect inflation going forward. Many increasingly believe the duties will ...

President Donald Trump's nominee for top statistician has a way for the government to avoid revising its previously published data, but it would leave the government, companies, and the public in the ...

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.

Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...

Macro investors are trying to make sense of President Donald Trump's Bureau of Labor Statistics plan.

Political pressure on government statisticians and private forecasters risks sending markets down a rabbit-hole, which could ...

The president is eliminating top government statisticians and data collection efforts he doesn’t like, raising alarms about ...

E.J. Antoni, the conservative economist President Donald Trump named Monday as his pick to lead the nonpartisan Bureau of ...

The monthly jobs report is under a microscope as Trump’s nominee to take over the Bureau of Labor Statistics has debated ...