Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

If net investment is really down over 15%, tell me why we aren’t totally screwed?

Stop the ICE Workplace Raids by Peggy Noonan wsj.com/opinion/stop-t…

Banana Republic Top Justice Department Antitrust Officials Fired Amid Internal Feud wsj.com/us-news/law/to…

If you want data, make Congress pony up. U.S. Inflation Data Rely More on Guesswork Than Previously Known wsj.com/articles/u-s-i…

Job seekers are out in the cold this summer. Especially the ones who have been hunting for a while.  wsj.com/economy/jobs/u…

This is insane and stupid. Swiss business officials struggle to wrap their heads around the 39% tariff President Trump imposed on their exports to the U.S. wsj.com/economy/trade/…

Trump Fired America’s Economic Data Collector. History Shows the Perils. nytimes.com/2025/08/03/bus… via @NYTimes

Reading this story after reading about starving kids in Africa is a bit much. $200k for a flight so your dog is comfy. wsj.com/lifestyle/trav…

Trump Claims the Jobs Report Was Rigged. Was It? by Allysia Finley wsj.com/opinion/trump-…

BLS is under-funded and stymied by the DOGE-Trump cuts. President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday ignited a crisis at the U.S.’s top economic-stats agency. But it wasn’t the start of the BLS’s challenges. wsj.com/economy/real-s…

Trump’s firing of the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official is rattling Wall Street’s reliance on government data… The President wants his own people there, so that he’s sure the numbers won’t contradict his lies. wsj.com/finance/invest…

Economic activity tied to manufacturing has shrunk during most of President Trump’s second term, despite companies’ pledges to beef up investments in domestic production wsj.com/economy/trump-…

U.S. Factory Activity Continues to Contract wsj.com/economy/u-s-fa…

U.S. Factory Orders Declined in June wsj.com/economy/u-s-fa…

These quotes are almost hilarious wsj.com/politics/polic…

This sounds like an export tax. I guess Trump isn’t familiar with the US Constitution… @Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices have agreed to give the Trump administration a portion of the sales from their artificial-intelligence chips to China wsj.com/tech/trump-adm…

The era of measuring these things is over. Immediately preceding and following the pandemic, wages for poor workers began rising much faster than they did for the rich. That era may have come to at least a temporary halt. wsj.com/economy/jobs/l…

It’s almost funny that the Chinese are making Trump so rich. The online trading platform PancakeSwap serves as an incubator of sorts, drumming up interest among traders to use coins issued by the Trump family’s main crypto company, World Liberty Financial wsj.com/finance/curren…

Trump made clear that he was out for blood against John Bolton when he pulled the former adviser’s protective detail after his re-election. wsj.com/opinion/john-b…