Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics over an inconvenient jobs report will make it harder to build a dynamic ...

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Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

After a rough July jobs report, Trump promptly fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, claiming without evidence that the data was “rigged” to hurt him.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CBO, and the Fed are far from perfect. But the U.S. needs a statistical system that is modern, agile, and protected from political interference.