Government Data Is Now in Question. Here's Where Macro Investors Are Turning to Fill the Gaps.

Government data is now in question. Here's where macro investors are turning to fill the gaps.

Donald Trump looks down at a phone while visiting the Miami Grand PrixClive Mason/Getty ImagesThe firing of the BLS head by President Donald Trump has spooked some macro investors.Trump's nomination of a partisan economist may push investors to rely more heavily on other data.Sources like ADP, Homebase, and MIT's Billion Prices Project have become critical, traders say.No savvy investor makes a decision off a single data point, but there are som…

America Is Now Officially a Banana Republic Run by Donald Trump

By Steven Greenhut / Op-Ed San Diego U-T / August 10, 2025  I grew up in the 1970s in and around one of the “safest” big cities in the United States, Philadelphia. That might be news to you given the City of Brotherly Love—now a relatively placid place—was known during that era for its gang-related murders and social dysfunction. It was news to residents, too, given that the streets felt so menacing. But why argue with statistics? A year after l…