friday, august 1, 2025 at 7:49:00 p.m. edt
Laugh of the Day: "Trump executes, er, fires (female) bls chief after today's employment numbers crater"
GRA: And off with her head, too.
"(nbc noise) President Donald Trump on friday ordered the firing of the head of the bureau of labor statistics, hours after a stunning government report showed that hiring had slowed down significantly over the past three months.
"taking to Trump, er, truth social, he attacked Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the bls. he claimed that the country's jobs reports 'are being produced by Biden appointee,' and ordered his administration to terminate her [N.S.: with extreme prejudice?].
"'we need accurate jobs numbers,' Trump wrote. "She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes."
"he intensified his attack in a later post, writing: 'in my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.' He didn't cite any evidence for his claim.
"the bls on friday morning reported that the U.S. economy added just 73,000 jobs in july, well below estimates. it also said it had revised the may and june numbers and they turned out to be lower than previously announced by more than 200,000 jobs.
"an administration official told nbc news that McEntarfer had indeed been
GRA: Does P.T. realize this action will negatively affect NEXT MONTH'S report? He wanted interest rates to go lower so...what's the problem?
--GRA
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, august 1, 2025 at 7:53:00 p.m. edt
News coverage is about as tilted as a 300-lb. kid sitting on one end of a teeter totter and on the other end is a 50-pounder.
And the 300 pounder is only getting heavier.
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I take all these numbers with 1/100th of a grain of salt.
--GRA
I thought TRUMP rigged the numbers to force the Fed to lower rates. Screwy.
--GRA
Thank you, El Presidente, for disappearing the disloyal Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Here's a helpful list of this year's Duke U. graduate degree recipients in Economics you can choose from: https://gettr.com/post/p3nwips0506
Or better yet, leave the position empty. And cull the legions of highly-compensated "civil" "servants" who collect the raw data which I'm sure are completely accurate and un-biased and will need no spinning at all from The Emperor's New Economist.
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