What Trump's Statistics Controversy Says About Climate Risk

What Trump's Statistics Controversy Says About Climate Risk

With the firing of the longtime head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics late last month and President Trump’s choice this week of a partisan economist to replace her, I’ve been thinking about the role of reliable, widely accepted data in financial decision-making. Every month, the BLS delivers jobs, inflation, and productivity numbers that investors, CEOs, and central bankers treat as gospel—or at least they have historically. The trustworthiness…

What Trump’s statistics controversy can teach us about tracking climate risk

With the firing of the longtime head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics late last month and President Trump’s choice this week of a partisan economist to replace her — what is the role of reliable, widely accepted data in financial decision-making