Last week, president Donald Trump sacked the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics after a downbeat jobs report, insisting that the US economy was actually “BOOMING under TRUMP”.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics needs to turn to real-time information as its surveys increasingly go unanswered.

In this episode of WSJ’s Take On the Week, we discuss the dismissal of Erika McEntarfer as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and what this might mean for the future reliability of economic data.

The Trump administration is interviewing candidates to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), including E.J. Antoni, ...

Reports indicate President Donald Trump is interviewing candidates for the vacant Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner ...

Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain ...

I thought of that experience in the light of Donald Trump—and not just because his divisive style mirrors Rizzo. Last week, ...

Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head ...

Why did he do such a stupid thing?” That was the question economist John Maynard Keynes asked in 1925 after Winston Churchill ...

William Beach, who Stephen Moore calls a “good friend,” said Trump's numbers shared during his Oval Office presser were “the ...

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