When President Trump didn’t like the weak jobs numbers that were released on Friday, he fired the person responsible for producing them.

Janet L. Yellen, the former Treasury secretary and chair of the Federal Reserve, said the firing was not what is expected from the most advanced economy in the world.

“This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic,” Ms. Yellen said.

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  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    “This is the kind of thing you would only expect to see in a banana republic,”

    Well… Yeah.

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      …if the statisitics don’t exist, then they aren’t real…welcome to Peron’s 30’s Argentina…prepare for surplus checks, while the nation is in debt…

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        I doubt he can, I’m sure they’ve been digitized and there’s some backups somewhere on tape everyone forgot about. But who knows lol

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    …he can release the statitics person, but not the epstein files…