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Trump’s biggest economic threat is inflation

Trump’s biggest economic threat is inflation
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By Joseph C SternbergYou can’t go wrong assuming President Trump is trying to create a diversion. So it is with last week’s kerfuffle over jobs data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after a round of embarrassing numbers. Unemployment isn’t a threat to his grand tariff project. Inflation is the killer, and it may prove to be a silent one.Americans have learned more since last Friday than they ever wanted to about the BLS. SubduedMr. Trump fired the economist who ran this section of the Labor Department,...

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