Odd Lots: Important US Economic Data Is Decaying (Podcast)

Gathering official economic data is a huge process in the best of times. But a bunch of different things have now combined to make that process even harder. People aren’t responding to surveys like they used to. Survey responses have also become a lot more divided along political lines. And at the same time, the Trump administration wants to cut back on government spending, and the worry is that fewer official resources will make tracking the US economy even harder for statistical departments th

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