Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: When President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it set off worries that economic data might not be as trustworthy in the …
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