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🗓️ 13 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating on your local takeaway, |
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| 0:32.5 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:40.9 | President Trump's nominee to lead an important government statistics agency is a Heritage Foundation economist who only last week |
| 0:46.6 | called for suspending the monthly jobs report. Who is E.J. Anthony? Can he win Senate confirmation? |
| 0:53.9 | And what signals are in the new inflation |
| 0:55.6 | report about the economy? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined |
| 1:01.7 | today by my colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley and Joe Sternberg. After an ugly jobs report recently, |
| 1:09.4 | President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, |
| 1:13.8 | claiming without really pointing to any evidence that the agency had rigged the numbers to make him look bad. |
| 1:19.7 | On Monday, the president named his choice of replacement E.J. Anthony, the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, |
| 1:27.4 | who has a record as a defender of the |
| 1:30.2 | Trump administration's policies and a brawler on social media. Here is Anthony shortly after |
| 1:36.3 | Trump's April Liberation Day tariff announcement defending the idea on the Tony Kinnett cast. |
| 1:42.3 | I really do actually like the president's strategy here. I like |
| 1:45.9 | the idea of reciprocal tariffs. In other words, if you're going to put trade barriers in place for |
| 1:51.5 | our exporters, if you're not going to give us access to your consumer markets, then we're |
| 1:55.7 | going to turn around and do the same thing to you. And the reason that's such a good strategy right |
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