Trump Tries to Hide it….

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Chief Economist and Platypus Economics founder Justin Wolfers discuss Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s efforts to politicize the government’s economic data as the latest economic numbers paint an increasingly troubling picture. Meiselas and Wolfers break down the attacks on data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other government agencies, why the independence and reliability of economic statistics matter, and what happens when political pressure is brought to bear on the institutions responsible for producing them.
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