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kairyssdal.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Don’t sleep on this

NEW: The Trump administration's fiscal year 2026 budget request's appendix says with no details: "The President's Budget proposes to reorganize the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau at the Department of Commerce"
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rwheiler.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yup, he’ll start fudging numbers.

pcsherry.bsky.social•2 days ago

Count on labor statistics being really good when Trump has his sticky fingers on the data.

jonsteinman.bsky.social•2 days ago

C-suites can wake up and join other elements of civil society in standing up to the authoritarian entrenchment now underway, or watch the fundamental pillars of a transparent, market economy collapse

adamboyle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Gonna be wild when we enter a depression and yet GDP and jobs are ‘booming’

jfallows.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kai, I more and more admire your haiku-like concision in posts!

grayflannelman.bsky.social•2 days ago

I won’t be able to sleep because of this.

travelswithbrindle.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m excited to yell at my senators about this

missivonne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Concepts of a plan, I presume.

sokyle2.bsky.social•1 day ago

In other words, Trump plans to fudge the nation’s economic performance numbers to make them look like he’s doing a good job …

Just like he did with his financial statements

irmam.bsky.social•1 day ago

There will be no accurate unemployment and wage statistics coming from the BLS, only lies made up to appear positive for trump.

comefollowjesus.bsky.social•2 days ago

twainspatriot.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well sure. All independent measures of reality pose a threat to the MAGA project

eclamb.bsky.social•2 days ago

Pure chaos.

searinglyaaron.bsky.social•2 days ago

If Trumpublicans gets what they want the economy stats will always be rosy. “15% gdp growth & prices going down!” while we’re living in shipping containers & paying $28 for a dozen eggs

jeannebobeanieisat.bsky.social•2 days ago

🛎️

portfoliocarmel.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

dwillbanks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Was wondering when the Census Bureau would be brought up (again)

tinybluedrop.bsky.social•2 days ago

In other words, we're going to make shit up and tell the public whatever we feel like. (Lie)

bee-rad-seattle.bsky.social•2 days ago

Rewriting the narrative.

bbchick17.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fairy tale economic data, what could go wrong? Fake data for fake markets, etc, the beat goes on

f150-93.bsky.social•2 days ago

Translation: Dismantle all of those bureaus.

goodstephen.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Expect less truth

A lot less

Pretty soon we will have lost all credibility

kygranli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Corruption of the 2nd Interregnum.

bewildered37.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump’s MAGA Republican base includes ICE Gestapo and millions of Neo-Nazis who hate Jews and People of Color. Led by the life-long racist, Donald Trump, these MAGAts are trying to convert the USA from a Constitutional Republic into a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy.

cogenteur.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next year's economic statistics will be incredible.

Literally.

jessica1603.bsky.social•2 days ago

If we do nothing else, we must flood the streets on June 14th.

danie913.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yes. I keep saying they’re going to purposely fuck with the census to redistrict in their favor.

itsjustme2.bsky.social•2 days ago

No numbers you can trust any more when you do them.

oliveriusiam.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Who is Government” has a great chapter on how the Bureau of Labor Statistics determines CPI and why it’s the most important number to everyday American life — the economic damage from hollowing out this agency would be incalculable

dubbletrubble1.bsky.social•2 days ago

The plan behind this is for the worst President ever to be able to control and re-write all the monthly economic reports.

geekpondering.com•2 days ago

yikes.

saneenglish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Get ready for 300% annual growth and -50% inflation under President Trump's glorious leadership!

allan-b.bsky.social•2 days ago

Could they fake the CPI?

always4bangtan.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

azeke57.bsky.social•2 days ago

Been wondering when this was going to happen. This is not good. Nice find.

historiken.bsky.social•2 days ago

making everything one big lie factory, isn't he

grampyandy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Say it louder. You've got the megaphone.

mskeen11.bsky.social•2 days ago

Who can sleep?

dystopiandiva.bsky.social•2 days ago

So Trump will be using his sharpie to make the numbers say whatever he wants them to.

skibee.bsky.social•2 days ago

I guarantee they will us AI to write all future reports, producing utterly unreliable bullshit data.

econrevirvine.bsky.social•2 days ago

We know they’re fudging or even burying stats on bird flu and COVID; I wouldn’t trust anything coming out of Commerce.

spgreene.bsky.social•2 days ago

With all the voluntary resignations thanks to fork in the road, I wonder how trustworthy the numbers are these days. This imports a complete lack of faith in theses numbers once this occurs.

babesk.bsky.social•2 days ago

😠

marktl.bsky.social•2 days ago

AI compiling data and poorly written programs analyzing prior to being sold to public for consumption.

hueythekingfish.bsky.social•2 days ago

Time to sell TIPS?

mickimaynard.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’d better not f with them. Those stats are crucial to tracking the economy.

we-are-toast.bsky.social•2 days ago

emmyem24.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hello voter suppression!

oldjediroo66.bsky.social•2 days ago

😧

juliefriday.bsky.social•2 days ago

The time to be concerned is when insiders start speaking out. And they will. Stats people are very protective of their sources. I’m more concerned about immediate issues like the 500 PPIs getting dc’d at BLS. And UI modernization funds getting yanked.

jcbrown.bsky.social•2 days ago

I’m tired and American’s are horrified of giving up things that we already have. “Remember this as we hear about "wasteful government spending."

jcbrown.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump, and Republican goons are subjecting most Americans to poverty, sickness, homeless, crimes, prostitution, drug addiction, death by destroying the government and the economy. They are taking us back to the Dark Ages. If you can, don't let the weak and the less fortunate to be abused.

johnpanzer.com•2 days ago

They’ll be renamed the Ministry of Truth

tejanarusa.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, no, no, no, no!

footenotes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've been yammering about this since they disbanded the Fed Economic Statistics Advisory Board the week of Mar 16

Dear Leader's gonna take his Sharpie to economic stats this year...

donlinn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Say goodbye to reliable information on anything...

robotblue.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this so they can try to push fake economy stats to the fed? Need to get those interest rates down to 0 🤣

rhinozee.bsky.social•1 day ago

They’ll be replacing it all with made up “stuff” from ChatGPT

kton11.bsky.social•2 days ago

Been saying, trump will manipulate all data to show the country booming while millions will be out of work and on the streets.

emilyusedtodance.bsky.social•2 days ago

They're using a budget bill to reconcile the Constitution

ensignpicard.bsky.social•2 days ago

So they can lie about everything and back it up with economic statistics, while we stand in breadlines.

dorindaroche.bsky.social•2 days ago

Now that's a big problem.

clarityrestoration.bsky.social•2 days ago

If anyone needs me I'll be rocking back & forth in a little ball in the corner.

bronxgirl2135.bsky.social•2 days ago

So they can lie more easily.

garythedad.bsky.social•2 days ago

Turning the metrics into lies, damned lies, and statistics.

pkhoury.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are setting up a situation that is very similar to what Putin did in Russia. Nobody trusts anything and everyone questions what is real or fake. It’s unbelievable that they would dismantle a sound system, but it is one more building block in an authoritarian state.

jimkaplan.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've already decided not to accept the economicnumbers from this Administration.

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