Welcome to the rest is politics, US, me, Katty K.

And me, Anthony Scaramucci.

What are we talking about, girl?

So it's Monday.

We are going to talk about the economy.

There's problems with the job numbers, more than

the fact that they are falling, inflation ticking up a little bit. Donald Trump has just fired

the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because there was a bad economic report on Friday.

We're going to ask if you can still trust the numbers that are coming out of

Washington. What happens when a country starts fiddling with its statistics? Other countries have

done that. Hasn't always led to great things. And questions being asked about whether America is

headed in the direction more of an Argentina style, erosion of civil service neutrality. But first,

before we get to all of that, we're going to remind you about our bonus episode this week. It's extra special because Anthony is joined by Dominic

Sanbrook from The Rest Is History. You can listen to that right now, by the way, by signing up

at the rest is politics, us.com to listen to Anthony and Dominic. It's really fun, even as much fun, almost as the Bureau of Labor

Statistics. I mean, not quite as much fun as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but almost as much

fun as the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I was sitting there feeling all flattered and puffing out my

chest, and now you just compared the podcast to the Bureau of Labor

Statistics. I mean, there's a lot of things about statistics and interesting isn't one of them.

Of course, the famous cliche is what we're all talking about right now, which is the famous

Wall Street cliche. There are lies and there are damn lies and there are statistics. And now Trump is saying

that statistics are now beyond the damn lies. They're into the lying lying. And he's blaming

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