Commerce Secretary’s Comments Raise Fears of Interference in Federal Data
Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, suggested government spending should be excluded from data about U.S. economic output ...
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic ...
January PCE inflation rose 0.3% for annual rate of 2.5%, meeting Dow Jones expectations
Personal consumption expenditures inflation rose 0.3% in January for an annual rate of 2.5%, the Bureau of Economic Analysis ...
Inflation Eased. Why It Isn’t a Sigh of Relief for the Fed or Consumers.
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge cooled in January, if economists’ forecasts are right. The Bureau of Economic ...
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Continued Inflation Highlights Danger of More Deficits
The Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation — the personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index — came in at 0.3 percent in January, twice the Federal Reserve’s implied target of 0.17 p ...
Economic growth is slowing — so Trump wants to redefine “economic growth”
Presidents might have an incentive to tamper with economic data reported by the executive branch. But they have always been ...