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Trump fired the BLS chief for allegedly rigging jobs numbers. Cool new paper finds the act of firing her (and the uncertainty it created) likely cost the economy more than the entire annual BLS budget.

2:36 PM · Jun 16, 2026

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‪John Bistline‬ ‪@bistline.bsky.social‬

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Full paper is here: www.nber.org/papers/w35135

The Value of Reliable Statistics

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...