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It has been a big week for economic data.
New GDP numbers, new consumer spending numbers, a jobs report.
And it's the job of economists to interpret all of these indicators.
But increasingly, people are challenging what they say.
In fact, today, Friday, August 1st,
President Trump fired the economist in charge of publishing that jobs report.
She ran the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or bls.
And Trump is accusing her without evidence,
faking the numbers because there was less job growth than expected.
And this kind of distrust has me thinking about this.
One particular discussion at the American Economic association annual meeting took place earlier this year.
This is a very big deal.
Thousands of economists are in attendance.