2025-08-12
13 分钟President Trump announces his pick for the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Plus, with the Trump-Putin summit just days away, Ukraine's fate seems as uncertain as ever.
Putin's goal has always been the same since this war began.
He wants a puppet regime in Ukraine, if not the alt-right annexation of all of Ukraine.
And so he doesn't see President Zelensky of Ukraine as a legitimate leader,
and therefore he refuses to meet with him.
And we look at how Chinese ships are set to dominate the world's seas and ports.
It's Tuesday, August the 12th.
I'm Azhar Sukri for The Wall Street Journal.
Here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving.
your world today.
President Trump has said he plans to nominate the chief economist at the Conservative Heritage Foundation to lead the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
As we mentioned on yesterday's show, E.J.
Antony is a longtime critic of the agency's handling of jobs data.
The position requires Senate confirmation.
Trump fired the agency's head following a weak jobs report earlier this month,
claiming that the agency's economic data was, quote, rigged.
Here's our deputy finance editor, Quentin Webb.
There is a kind of bigger picture here,
which is that actually response rates for all of the surveys that the BLS and other agencies use to collect data have gone down a lot.