Was not willing to fudge the numbers

The numbers coming in the next year will increasingly be lies. That's one of the things that brought down the USSR.

To double it

"And we produced 100 times as many wedges as required by the Plan"

This is literally why im pulling my money out of the stock market.

Business types and investors rely on government statistics for decision making. Those of us that just want to know what's going on with the economy rely on government statistics.

Going forward, it has to be assumed the numbers are bogus.

So far, only Jeff Cox is reporting this.

The story hasn't hit the other usual places -- yet.

Thanks.

Edit: it's at her Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_McEntarfer

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/business/trump-job-report-number-fire

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/31/business/tariffs-trump-trade



Blink twice if you're having a cognitive event.

For the most part, I believed that.

I do wonder what you make of this.

I am firm in my belief that existing staffers at BLS can’t be bought. Expect a mass resignation. Trump will find someone to take their place. BLS’s reputation for impartiality will be lost forever.

Once you’ve given up your integrity, you have nothing left.

This country has become a joke. Congrats, dumbass trump voters.

the MSM actually start to do their job?

"President Donald Trump said he was directing officials to fire Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hours after a report showed US job growth cooled sharply over the last three months.

“I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said on social media Friday, accusing her, without evidence, of politicizing the jobs report. “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.”

Friday’s jobs report from the BLS showed payrolls increased 73,000 in July after the prior two months were revised down by nearly 260,000. In the past three months, employment growth has averaged a paltry 35,000 — the worst since the pandemic.

Read More: Biggest Job Revisions Since 2020 Expose Pitfall of Economic Data"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/trump-says-he-ll-fire-labor-statistics-head-after-weak-jobs-data

You are right, it is outrageous and blatant.

He'll give them to you.

The man only has one solution to everything because he has no depth to understand how everything works and so, no way to come up with innovative ideas.

So I am going to get one that gives me a better number.

The U.S. job market was weak in July, and previous months were worse than thought
Sharp revisions of government data show the U.S. created just 33,000 jobs total in May and June, while July’s number came in soft, too.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/us-jobs-report-july-downward-revisions-worse-than-thought-rcna222442

Job market weakens as U.S. adds only 73,000 jobs in July

Aug. 1, 2025, 8:21 AM CDT / Updated Aug. 1, 2025, 9:21 AM CDT


By Rob Wile and Steve Kopack

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“Not only was this a much weaker than forecast payrolls number, the monster downward revisions to the past two months inflicts a major blow to the picture of labor market robustness,” Seema Shah, chief strategist with Principal Asset Management, said in a note following the release. “What’s more concerning is that with negative impact of tariffs only just starting to be felt, the coming months are likely to see even clearer evidence of a labor market slowdown.”

The report comes as President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies are set to begin taking effect for many U.S. trading partners, a move that he has touted as a boost for U.S. labor but criticized by many experts as a tax on consumers.

Major U.S. stock indexes dropped sharply in early Friday trading, with the Dow losing more than 700 points, while the Nasdaq fell more than 2%. The broader S&P 500 was down about 1.7%, while yields on 10-year and 30-year U.S. bonds dropped, indicating a move by investors to safer assets.

The report comes a day after Trump unveiled a sweeping new set of tariffs. Analysts have calculated that the average effective tariff rate imposed on all goods being imported into the U.S. is now 15%, the highest level since the 1930s..................

The biggest, bestest, growth ever under any president.

400 million new jobs next month.

And the press will report it, copy n paste.

policies.

This "government" is certified loony tunes. Impeach, remove this mf'r ASAP.

publishing cooked numbers.

The stock market won't like this. Not at all, not one bit. Trump just blew a hole in the side of the economic ship of state.

This might be the beginning of the next Great Depression.

Clearly it’s bad number crunching and not the performance of the trump economy.

🤨

Our country is so fucked, thanks to everyone who ticketed the box next to tRump's name at the ballot box.

Without accurate data, the economy could collapse.

pollution, corruption, trade deals, debt, or anything else.

Not only will only good reports come from the WH...I can see that the WH will stop REPORTING of bad reports from other sources independent of the Feds. Not only will they chill reporting....I can see that federal research and investigations that others would depend on for their own studies has been cut or controlled so that the base information is just absent.

The stage is already set.

Shohei Ohtani is around .270.

If the Dodgers would just fire the club statistician, both their batting averages would immediately go up 50 points.

Simple logic.

when the market crashes he’ll fire Powell then we’ll be safely on the road to depression. Whoopee!

This should be considered hard evidence that we can trust nothing that comes out of the BLS, and I don't think we can trust crime stats, overdose stats, suicide stats, immigration stats, drug busts or much of the health-related information that will emerge from this administration--to say nothing of climate data and, eventually, maybe even the goddamn weather forecasts.

Remember how major economists and business-related news organizations were so skeptical of the data dump from a month ago? Was it the same unemployment stats that were just revised downward?

On Wednesday, Powell made a point to say that the Federal Reserve can only be as good as the data that comes from the administration is reliable. That was a message to America.

straight-up making up feel-good stats. At this point the shit's asking "Where's the goddamn fan? I'm runnin' late, here!"

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He is SUCH a SISSY

Anyone else notice that about the traitor?

Stupid orange prick should have fired himself, he's doing all of the damage.

Can’t have any news that reflects badly on his Maladministration.

Anyone from business going to speak up?…..magas believe everything he says so don’t look for congress to object.
Probably this report came out too high just like the past 2 months has proven.

Of stellar job reports coming out while the reality being that jobs are dropping to unprecedented lows?

Another desperate attempt to deflect from the Epstein cataclysm.

collecting and reporting accurate data on the economy.

But every subsequent jobs report should have 30% subtracted for correction.

Screams the queen of farts!

Now we can’t trust the data coming out of Dept of Labor.

What until the muthahfukah fires the fed chief.

Dumbass.

She wouldn't stand next to the open window

So basically, he assumes that everyone is as crooked as he is. Not surprising for someone with his brand of psychopathology, but also EXTREMELY not good. *very weary sigh*

Reading the news these days is like being subjected to an endless stream of emotional abuse. Just one awful thing after another, with no end in sight. It's absolutely exhausting.

Confronted with evidence of his own failures, the president could've changed direction. He instead found it easier to fire his labor statistics chief.

In true authoritarian fashion, Trump, confronted by evidence of his failures, fired the labor statistics chief for telling the truth.

It’s dangerously insane to set the credibility of government stats on fire to satisfy presidential whims.

This isn’t how Americans govern; it’s how despots rule.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-01T19:11:05.747Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-responds-failure-create-jobs-firing-us-labor-statistics-chief-rcna222532

be able to believe anything that comes from the government.

In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.

Link to tweet

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

— Jane Mayer (@janemayer.bsky.social) 2025-08-03T14:43:25.797Z

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.uevb.5cZlTEaDzRQn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare


We can no longer trust any numbers from the trump administration