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

Trump may be less concerned about the jobs numbers than the consumer-price index.

Revisions to the U.S. job report are actually a sign of commitment to getting the numbers right, rather than something ...

The Federal Reserve has not approved an interest rate cut since before the Nov. 5 election, but one of its governors said she ...

Trump’s outburst over a bad jobs report is the second-term equivalent of his furious insistence in 2017 that more than a ...

Regardless of what's thrown Wall Street's way, the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite always find a ...

This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire. But at least Nixon faced constraints.

Remember musical chairs? Everyone circles nervously as the music plays, but when it stops, someone is inevitably left without ...

The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics regularly publishes a suite of reports and datasets that businesses, journalists, ...

The president's dismissal of the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics risks making the "gold standard" of information ...

Fox News has sharply cut coverage of inflation and economy despite persistent price pressures. This media silence risks ...

President Donald Trump claims, without a shred of evidence, that the government’s premiere economic data operation nefariously engineered negative statistics “for political purposes.” ...