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Rhiannon12866

(241,475 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2025, 03:00 AM Aug 4

Trump's Outrageous Lies About Jobs Numbers Exposed - The Bulwark

Will Saletan exposes Donald Trump’s authoritarian tactics after Trump fires the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for reporting accurate—but politically inconvenient—job numbers. Even worse, Trump’s top economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, steps in to shamelessly defend Trump’s lies about the data, proving himself the ultimate apparatchik. - 08/03/2025.

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Trump's Outrageous Lies About Jobs Numbers Exposed - The Bulwark (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 4 OP

If the world can't trust the numbers Varaddem Aug 4 #1

Varaddem

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1. If the world can't trust the numbers

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Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:46 AM

Aug 4

Why would it use a dollar for the basis of anything?
Will oil prices be given on a different currency?

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