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Can we still trust US economic data? With Erica Groshen

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After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a worse-than-expected US jobs report, President Trump fired the agency’s head, Erika McEntarfer, claiming her numbers were ‘wrong’ and manipulated. There’s no evidence this was the case but many agree gathering reliable data on the health of the economy is getting harder. The FT’s chief data reporter, John Burn-Murdoch, discusses why that’s happening and what to do about it with Erica Groshen, the former BLS commissioner.


Clip: NBC


Further Reading:


US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief


Trump’s war on data will do lasting harm


Donald Trump’s attack on US labour statistics agency spooks investors


John Burn-Murdoch is the FT’s chief data reporter. You can find his articles here


Subscribe to The Economics Show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen.


Presented by John Burn-Murdoch. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music from Breen Turner, and sound design by Jean-Marc Eck.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


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After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a worse-than-expected US jobs report, President Trump fired the agency’s head, Erika McEntarfer, claiming her numbers were ‘wrong’ and manipulated. There’s no evidence this was the case but many agree gathering reliable data on the health of the economy is getting harder. The FT’s chief data reporter, John Burn-Murdoch, discusses why that’s happening and what to do about it with Erica Groshen, the former BLS commissioner.


Clip: NBC


Further Reading:


US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chief


Trump’s war on data will do lasting harm


Donald Trump’s attack on US labour statistics agency spooks investors


John Burn-Murdoch is the FT’s chief data reporter. You can find his articles here


Subscribe to The Economics Show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen.


Presented by John Burn-Murdoch. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music from Breen Turner, and sound design by Jean-Marc Eck.


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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