This is a bad tweet. Paul, you're right to point out that the underlying models/processes used to produce jobs numbers are less reliable during a pandemic. But these data weren't tampered with and Paul knows it. The economic debate doesn't need this garbage innuendo. Do betterhttps://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1268887669200883714 …
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Wait, what's the theory here? That political appointees intervened to make sure BLS followed its own long-standing rules (don't change responses ad hoc even if there are FR misclassifications)? Or that somehow FRs were pressured to incorrectly classify people?
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(either of these are dangerous nonsense)
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