Adam Tooze: Last week, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick quietly disbanded the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, a sounding board for the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of Economic Analysis, which produce official statistics. So Trump can doctor US statistics - ThreadSky

andersaslund.bsky.social • 56 days ago

Adam Tooze: Last week, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick quietly disbanded the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee, a sounding board for the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of Economic Analysis, which produce official statistics.
So Trump can doctor US statistics

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harveyv.bsky.social•56 days ago

Heading to a dictatorship

mtheriaultsf.bsky.social•56 days ago

Fully expected.

superberg.bsky.social•56 days ago

#fuckHowardLutnick

cmirar.bsky.social•55 days ago

📌

lorihjschaffer.bsky.social•56 days ago

The Trump administration says seniors won't complain if they miss a social security check.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/social-security-lutnick-doge-checks

janetlinde.bsky.social•56 days ago

Like a lot of seniors, I have *financial commitments* that rely on my social security check arriving each month. For anyone to suggest they'd just arbitrarily turn it off is an outrage. Blowback would be cataclysmic.

jlindblu.bsky.social•56 days ago

Wanna bet?

next-x.bsky.social•56 days ago

Would not want anyone to contradict the KING

blueyedem.bsky.social•56 days ago

I would not trust any information or data that comes from this administration. The jobs reports and unemployment claims or budget data will be monkeyed with.

sturrrt.bsky.social•56 days ago

Surprises me, that since this was all in projects 2025, no one thought to get out ahead of this.

ringby.bsky.social•56 days ago

Foreign investors will not take kindly to this, they need reliable information for risk management.

sillynilly63.bsky.social•56 days ago

Who could have seen that coming 🤪🤪🤪

quecosq.bsky.social•56 days ago

Wonderfull for Donald Trump, it is a great work, so those official statistic figures can not contradict him any more.

kimnoreen.bsky.social•56 days ago

Felon 47 screwed up the census in first regime. I was hired for this and it was the most screwed up job i ever had. Nobody knew what they were doing.

jaydeegee.bsky.social•56 days ago

Remember when Trump appointed Wilbur Ross, in his first term? Another "no value added"billionaire appointed to a cabinet position, who then promptly set yout to undermine the US census. He didn't want any facts to get in the way of his biases.

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