Economists waving red flags on the economy.

National Association of For Business Economics (NABE) surveyed 159 economists who are know cautioning that tariffs, the recently-passed tax and spending bill, the crackdown on immigration, Trump's interference with the Federal Reserve, and the administration's management of government economic statistics are all likely to damage the economy in some way. https://www.investopedia.com/economists-pan-trump-economic-agenda-11796051?hid=d290ac27e693638f049dff61a2efce31b56d5d63&did=19197612-20250826 #NABE #Economy #Economists #Tariffs #Immigration #Fed #FederalReserve #BLS #EconomicStatistics

#HowardLutnick at #Trump's cabinet meeting:

> "The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the #blockchain, because you are the #crypto president. And we are going to put out #GDP on the #blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data distribution."

It's worth noting that once you put some numbers "on chain" you can pretend they are "immutable". this could be relevant in a world where statisticians have recently been fired for revising numbers downwards (AKA "the world of the United States").

https://x.com/tracyalloway/status/1960408102387507680

#BLS #statistics #laborstatistics #uspol #corruption #lutnick #uspolitics

On a whim, after reading (again) of the #TrumpVirus epidemic of "disappearing" people without #DueProcess ...

I asked Chat GPT / #AI what the numbers are, comparatively, between incidents of people "eating the dogs" vs. being disappeared.

I got the standard disclaimer/lecture about using actual data provided by real sources; & the dog-eating story is false. I should consult with government sources for reliable data.... um...

OK, so where can we go in the aftermath of Trump's axing the #BLS?

"In the months leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot, a now deleted Twitter account bearing the full name of E. J. Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), betrayed a seeming obsession with promoting election denial conspiracy theories while talking about violent threats to those who stood in Trump’s way.

The account, which used “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” as its screen name for a time, was linked by the conservative Heartland Institute think tank when referring to Antoni in a 2020 post on Twitter promoting one of its own YouTube videos in which he appeared. A WIRED review of an archive of the account’s posts shows that in the months leading up to the attack on the Capitol, it spread baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and shared content from The Donald, a virulently pro-Trump message board that was used to organize the events of Jan 6, 2021.

One of the final posts on the now deleted account used violent religious rhetoric in the hours before the assault on the Capitol began.

“Samson has his arms around the temple pillars, and though he may not survive, he will bring it all down on his enemies,” the account posted late on January 5, 2021, in response to a Twitter post from Trump calling on Republicans to “FIGHT.“"

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ej-antoni-trump-bls-conspiracy-theories-epstein-covid-election-denial/

#USA #Trump #BLS #LaborStatistics #ConspiracyTheories