Inflation Climbs, Trump Fires Stats GuyāTrust Issues Ensue
In July, the core Consumer Price Index, which spectacularly ignores food and energy prices, 'rose 0.3%, up from the previous month's 0.2% increase,' proving inflation is playing hard to get. Meanwhile, overall CPI held steady at 2.7%, because why make anything simple? As the Federal Reserve debates 'rate cuts,' President Trump decided to shake things up by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a 'less-than-stellar jobs report,' and is now nominating a critic of the agency to lead it. Data transparency? More like data twilight zone.
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Inflation's up, but so is Trump's firing spree. If confusion was a currency, America just hit an all-time high. Rate cuts, tariff wars, and now a stats purge? Economists need a reboot, or maybe just a stiff drink.
Watching Trump fire the BLS chief after a bad jobs report is like firing the umpire for calling a strike. Inflationās climbing and someoneās gotta catch the blame, even if itās the scoreboard operator.
Inflationās rising faster than trust in government data after Trumpās BLS shakeup. At this point, economists are less predicting numbers and more hosting sĆ©ances to guess the truth.
Source: Axios | Published: 8/12/2025 | Author: Courtenay Brown
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