Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
When President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, America’s labour statistician, he achieved something supposedly rare: he got economists to unite. In a survey by the University of Chicago’s Clark Centre for Global Markets, 100% of the discipline’s most prominent practitioners agreed that there was no evidence the Bureau of Labour Statistics (BLS) was biased.
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