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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Trump administration has found itself caught between deflecting blame for the weak economic numbers and denying the numbers’ validity. In an interview with CNN this morning, Miran admitted that the new jobs report “isn’t ideal” but went on to attribute it to various “anomalous factors,” including data quirks and reduced immigration. (Someone should ask Miran why immigration is down.) And this afternoon, Trump posted a rant on Truth Social accusing the BLS commissioner of cooking the books to make him look bad. “I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” he wrote. “She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified.” He then went on to argue, not for the first time, that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should be fired for hamstringing the economy with high interest rates. These defenses are, of course, mutually exclusive: If the bad numbers are fake, why should Trump be mad at Powell?

Trump's people have no idea what they're doing. Their only plan is to keep up the bullshit and deflection while they steal as much as they can before the country crashes. And then they'll find ways to use the crash to make themselves richer too.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Trump's people have no idea what they're doing. Their only plan is to keep up the bullshit and deflection while they steal as much as they can before the country crashes.

Bingo! This needs to become a shirt.

[-] _core@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Trumps admin is vulture capitalism applied to the govt.

[-] teft@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago

It's a big reason that they're all going all in on crypto. If they store the loot outside of the USD they don't care all that much if the dollar crashes. They can buy back into the dollar afterwards. Or some other currency if the whole country goes tits up.

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

So they know exactly what they're doing.

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

And then they'll find ways to use the crash to make themselves richer too.

^cough too big to fail ^cough

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 55 points 2 days ago

This morning, the BLS released its monthly jobs report, showing that the economy added just 73,000 new jobs last month—well below the 104,000 that forecasters had expected—and that unemployment rose slightly, to 4.2 percent.

How fucked is that if you think about it. There are more jobs, but less employed people? I know the answer is that pay is so low, many people hold multiple jobs, but touting this as an achievement is perverse.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And the BLS official who published the numbers was fired because orangeboi didn’t like the numbers. Yes, really.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 days ago

And look at the next couple of sentences:

More important, the new report showed that jobs numbers for the previous two months had been revised down considerably after the agency received a more complete set of responses from the businesses it surveys monthly. What had been reported as a strong two-month gain of 291,000 jobs was revised down to a paltry 33,000.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ah... I infer that with the daily economic and social chaos and confusion caused by this administration, many businesses had no idea if their own outlook was good or bad. The ones less affected would respond positively, right away so earlier data may have extrapolated from that.

[-] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago

Based on reporting, it looks like the BLS didn't have the staff to do the legwork anymore after the purge of the federal government, so they used various models to "guesstimate" the totals for May/June.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 2 days ago

I feel like there are more senior job openings, but fewer entry level and mid level. At least with software, I'm seeing a lot of senior and "founding" posts. Maybe the Internet spy machine just thinks I should go for senior only, but I'd take mid level.

[-] SoleInvictus 8 points 2 days ago

Same in my profession, it's all manager jobs with no staff, i.e., do all the work yourself. I'm senior level but not qualified to manage, so I just took a barely above entry level position in a vaguely related field for 1/3 of my previous salary. But there's a $5k signing bonus... because it's a very undesirable job with high turnover.

Thanks, Cheeto Mussolini!

[-] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Actually, the answer is that job growth isn't keeping up with population growth.

I think the key is that population growth is around .6% right now. So that's over $2m a year, or rather 171,000 people per month.

So assuming there were an average rate of retirements and kids getting older.. id imagine any number less than 171,000 new jobs a month will result in higher unemployment over time.

Maybe someone can point out why I'm wrong there. Could be missing something

[-] Prime@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

18 years latency should be added

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe 16. As 44 million people in this country weren't born here ~14%. They marry in, or come on work Visas and become green cards/naturallized citizens.

Note that population is greater than the number of people in 198 countries, for example, Canada, Poland, Ukraine, Afghanistan.. all have less total population.

When people ask how many people this administration is trying to persecute, the number is larger than that, because they are trying to strip citizenships from some people who were born here as well.

[-] frezik 1 points 2 days ago

100k is the number usually cited for this. Not sure how that calculation is done, though.

[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Watch some new term be invented like "underemployed" to represent people who don't have enough jobs to survive.

[-] dastanktal@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

stagflationary environment that economists were predicting a few months ago: mediocre growth, a weakening labor market, and rising prices.

Yeah, that tracks.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Oh look, that annoying little fact that always preludes an economic collapse.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

“Ecomony.”

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