Brutkey

BrianKrebs
@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

Make America Guess Again?

"President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Fox News Digital on Monday that the agency should suspend monthly jobs reports, a change that could leave businesses and policymakers at least temporarily without the data they’ve used for decades to gauge the state of the labor market and broader economy."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/12/bls-antoni-suspend-jobs-report/


geos
@geos@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I guess. Which is better, no data or lies?

Yakyu Night Owl
@YakyuNightOwl@mastodon.world

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Do the inbreds have jobs? Good. They must be joining ICE. The rest? White people are born liars. We move on.

Tall Simon
@TallSimon@mstdn.ca

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange ADP's report is there (at least if Stanford is still funded?)

https://adpemploymentreport.com/

It's not as sharp as the BLS numbers but it's in line.

T2R
@T2R@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange all I do is swear at these political posts. I’m tired of the sheer amount of idiocy these days. I’m just tired.

Kenadak
@kenadak@vmst.io

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange can't have bad numbers if you don't have numbers. It worked for COVID remember, less tests = less cases.

DoesThisNeedAGround?
@doesthisneedaground@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Every 1st Friday of the month, Trump will drag out an ever increasing, illegible chart to show all of his "winning". I for one can't wait for the next "Medium" income report.

Bob
@SensorLock@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange If they don't report a public set of stats on a regular basis, what kind of arbitrage opportunities does that open up for investment organizations that have the resources to privately gather the stats themselves? A way to make the market inefficient on purpose for profit?

Krypt3ia
@krypt3ia@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange If there are no numbers, there’s no recession

Paul_IPv6
@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange

of course he picks someone who thinks the agency he's applying to shouldn't actually do what the agency does. TACO wants to destroy this, just like DOJ, SEC, Dept of Ed, HHS, SSA, etc.

hard to keep claiming you're a business genius if folks are constantly bringing up all those pesky facts based on that darned data cruft.