Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report
Should you fire a personal trainer when the scale shows that you’ve gained weight? Should you fire the lab tech when your blood test reveals your cholesterol numbers have gone up? Should you go down to the post office and demand your mail carrier be relieved of their duties immediately when bad news arrives in your mailbox?
Trump doesn’t like the story being told by the lagging indicators and instead of acknowledging them and working to positively impact the leading indicators, he shoots the messenger.
Perhaps he can get someone in place who will only publish good news. But moves like this certainly make it hard to trust.
All of this nonsense is why I remain a member of the exhausted middle.