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Let's go ahead and move to there's a lot of significant economic news, including let's put this first element up on the screen.

Trump has now nominated a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

One of many reasons why I hate Donald Trump is now I have to worry about who is the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

So his name is E.J. Antony, chief economist at Heritage Foundation, apparently a longtime critic of the agency's approach to collecting data.

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