About this episode
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: NBCFurther Reading:US labour data agency was teetering even before Donald Trump fired its chiefTrump’s war on data will do lasting harmDonald Trump’s attack on US labour statistics agency spooks investorsJohn Burn-Murdoch is the FT’s chief data reporter. You can find his articles hereSubscribe 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.
