Sadly, I have a hard time trusting any economic data coming out of Washington these days.
The Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics are supposed to be non-biased and impartial. Maybe they are, but so is our Supreme Court. We have witnessed what has gone on there. If the supposed highest bar of fairness and justice can be corrupted, then any of these other institutions can.
I keep asking myself if Trump were in office and all of these key data providing offices were housed by his appointees during an election year, would they manipulate the numbers to make him look better. Absolutely they would.
Frankly, Democrats would be dumb not to take the same advantages when they have the power. There’s no such thing as cheating when someone else has rigged the game. We saw what happened when they went high, when the other guys went low. We got Trump.