So it's essentially a third of all the jobs we thought we had added over that year are gone.

They never existed.

It's like taking four whole months of job creation, ripping them off the calendar.

In this episode, we break down the discrepancies between government data, media reporting, and

today's economic realities.

We don't see the numbers quite matching up to a lot of the government statistics.

And we get into some very perverse situations where the

BLS actually counts something as an increase in quality when in fact it's a

decrease in the consumers paying more for it.

E.J. Antoni is an economist whose research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy.

He's a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Where I think this becomes scandalous is the fact that these statistical problems first became evident in the spring of

2022 and nothing has been done to correct them.

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelleck.

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