Days after he responded to a disappointing jobs report by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Trump ...

The week ahead is very big for the economy. Reports from the federal government are due on inflation, jobless claims, retail ...

Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain resources.

Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency.

Economics textbooks insist that stock prices reflect the future stream of a company’s profits on any given day. For all the ...