more failing news on the US economy.

But I hear the almighty dollar % went up about 1%.

The ADP numbers are much more reliable.

When they start being corrupted we'll know right away as dedicated civil servants there will resign en masse. The data is the data and the people processing thew data are legit for now.

They'll say the same thing.

specifically the Current Employment Statistics (CES) program which measures the monthly jobs. We worked directly with BLS staff. And as you say, I can vouch for the continued validity of the data coming out of the CES program. I'm not going to go into the detailed explanation again, but suffice to say It will be obvious if/when the data ceases to be legit. Manipulating that data would be extremely difficult. It is far more likely that they simply stop publishing the monthly data.

Thank you for standing up for BLS. And BTW, the data released on Friday will include benchmark revisions for the past 2 years. Based on preliminary benchmark estimates released in September, March 1995 jobs estimate could be revised downward by close to a million. Subsequent months will be reduced as well. I expect the numbers will be very bad news for Trump.

Due to the partial shutdown that occurred.

It will be released on Wednesday, February 11.

https://www.bls.gov/bls/2025-lapse-revised-release-dates.htm

They just want to stall the bad news.

I think they'll just change it to quarterly reporting if things get too bad.

And a lot of the public just think all this is is just an economic indicator. The jobs report and other BLS reports are a lot more than just economic news, there's all sorts of impacts that people don't know about. Local and state governments often have actions that can be triggered by the BLS jobs or inflation reports. They can expand unemployment insurance and food aid when the BLS numbers trigger them to. There are corporations that use BLS data as input to strategies and investments.

Delaying these reports causes ripples, it creates risk for governments and business alike. If they ever start falsifying the data, the impacts could be catastrophic.

The data is making Diaper Donnie look bad.