Trump administration 2024-2028

[mariomike]

It’s funny when these sort of asinine things come out that none of the Trump supporters on here come out and try and spin these things in a positive manner.

Reminds me of something I read up thread,

I'll just sit back and watch all the regulars who claim moral superiority by blaming everything on "TDS" do their thing. The fucking irony.

 

[brihard]

Reality isn't conforming to what he believes it is, therefore it's time to cook more books.

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Nothing builds confidence in your economy and government like firing the statisticians who deliver economic numbers you don’t like.

In one stroke of the pen, Trump will make any and all economic numbers out of the U.S. a little more suspect, a little bit more unreliable.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Nothing builds confidence in your economy and government like firing the statisticians who deliver economic numbers you don’t like.

In one stroke of the pen, Trump will make any and all economic numbers out of the U.S. a little more suspect, a little bit more unreliable.

A long time ago when I worked in Prague I got introduced to Czech-Canadian who emigrated back there after a long proud tenure with StatsCan. He went back to head up the newly independent Czech Statistical Office. He said back then that he’s biggest challenge was getting his staff to actually do their job correctly in terms of reporting the numbers/stats ‘as they were’ - no matter if it was good news or bad news - just report it as it was and that he would take care of the rest and ‘protect’ them.
I wish I could remeber his name but after reading this news out of the US, I’m sure he had an up hill battle daily.

 

[Czech_pivo]

A long time ago when I worked in Prague I got introduced to Czech-Canadian who emigrated back there after a long proud tenure with StatsCan. He went back to head up the newly independent Czech Statistical Office. He said back then that he’s biggest challenge was getting his staff to actually do their job correctly in terms of reporting the numbers/stats ‘as they were’ - no matter if it was good news or bad news - just report it as it was and that he would take care of the rest and ‘protect’ them.
I wish I could remeber his name but after reading this news out of the US, I’m sure he had an up hill battle daily.

I found the guy - quite the background story on him.

Edvard Outrata - Institut pro politiku a společnost

www.politikaspolecnost.cz

 

[brihard]

Yeah, the more I mull the whole “fire the statistician” thing, the more I realize both how pathetic and how damaging it is. Basic economic data is essential to so many different things. America typically does an excellent job of tracking stats and data, and revisions of past months’ data that are collected on a rolling basis are utterly normal. When a regime begins to fire people for telling the truth about fundamentals of the economy, that’s a really, really bad thing. Once you can’t rely on trustworthy data, how are you supposed to roll out informed and tailored policy worth a damn?

 

[RangerRay]

Nothing builds confidence in your economy and government like firing the statisticians who deliver economic numbers you don’t like.

Or firing all the inspectors-general for reasons. Or appointing unqualified hacks to senior positions in government. Or….

 

[PPCLI Guy]

. Once you can’t rely on trustworthy data, how are you supposed to roll out informed and tailored policy worth a damn?

That is when decision-based evidence-making comes into play

#telford