They're cooking the economic books to please Trump [View all]

Third quarter GDP numbers just came in, and they are much stronger than expected at 4.3% growth. Sorry, but that feels like a lie to me, what with inflation, the farm economy and our economy in general being tanked with tariffs, the double digit rise in bankruptcies over last year, the mass layoffs, etc.

Earlier this year when GDP and employment numbers came in that Trump didn't like, he fired the head of the BLS, not to mentionthe firings at that department in general. My opinion is that they've gotten the message and have been cooking the books ever since in order to please their boss and keep their jobs. They can get away with this for awhile, but sooner or later, probably sometime next year, it's going to become too obvious how bad the economy is for people to ignore, and no amount of cooking will help. Plan accordingly, a crash is coming.