On Thursday, President Donald Trump took a break from gilding the Oval Office to summon the media for a presentation in a ...

Like any government agency, the BLS is a thoroughly political entity. And yet Donald Trump’s critics are right to be worried.

Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ leader compounds a yearslong struggle to modernize methods and maintain resources.

Officials are looking at E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, among others, to head jobs-data agency.

Economics textbooks insist that stock prices reflect the future stream of a company’s profits on any given day. For all the ...