The result will be opacity, uncertainty, greater financial risk and (especially) a persistent suspicion that inflation is being understated — all of which will push long-term bond yields higher and ...

After President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, her former adviser at Virginia Tech is defending her professionalism.

E.J. Antoni is a partisan hack. A frequent guest on Steve Bannon’s "War Room" podcast, he’s joined Bannon in criticizing the ...

Saving taxpayer money, saving lives and finding novel solutions to meaningful problems is what government workers do every ...

President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after a disappointing July jobs report showed only 73,000 jobs added and major downward revisions to previous months. Accusing her of ...

That’s part of the reason Gonzaga associate professor of economics Ryan Herzog thinks President Donald Trump made a mistake ...

William Beach, who was Trump’s first-term Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, called the firing "baseless" and "damaging" in a letter co-signed by Erica Groshen, who preceded Beach and was ...

On August 11, Trump announced his nominee to replace McEntarfer: E.J. Antoni, chief economist and Richard Aster fellow at The ...

I suppose it is understandable to consider the recent firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as just another casualty among the mass firings President Donald Trump has ...

Consumer sentiment worsened in August, snapping two consecutive months of improved attitudes among shoppers as President ...

Bill Beach said the president's suggestions that the jobs report was rigged betrayed a misunderstanding in how those numbers ...

Erika McEntarfer was a longtime US government employee who bore the brunt of President Trump’s unhappiness with Friday’s jobs report. She had served as BLS head for a year and a half.