Commissioner of labor statistics fired after weaker-than-expected jobs figures
39 belter 11 8/1/2025, 7:05:49 PM cnbc.com ↗
Comments (11)
inamberclad · 4h ago
Firing your subordinates because you don't like the number they report to you is how you obliterate the functioning machinery of government.
chung8123 · 4m ago
The numbers were super wrong for June and July. It could appear that they were fired for misleading numbers from the previous months.
legobmw99 · 3h ago
Hard to imagine that isn’t part of the goal at this point
kccoder · 2h ago
Which is their goal
bwb · 2h ago
What a depress timeline. I didn’t have the rebirth of Soviet style rule on my bingo card this year.
mongol · 3h ago
Same mindset as Stalin. Granted, not as severe outcome, but the neurons seem to work in similar patterns
Ancalagon · 1h ago
Not as severe yet.
mahkeiro · 3h ago
They did the same with inflation numbers…
Braxton1980 · 3h ago
How do you know?
mahkeiro · 18m ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-economic-data-quality-wo...
ChrisArchitect · 2h ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44760734