Erosion of Institutional Integrity Under Trump: The Case of Economic Data Suppression
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dotcoma
10mo ago· 3 min readenOpinion
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Summary
The article discusses the erosion of institutional integrity under the Trump administration, particularly focusing on the suppression of economic data reporting. It highlights concerns about the reliability of information from institutions tracking climate change, infectious diseases, and now economic indicators, suggesting a broader pattern of authoritarian control over inconvenient truths.
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Institutions that might produce inconvenient information, from those tracking climate change to those tracking infectious disease, have been special targets.
And now they’ve come for the economic data.
This morning's jobs report was very bad: It didn’t signal a recession — not yet — but it raised alarms.
Goodbye, reliable economic data
