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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.worksEnglish
    422·
    10 days ago

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

    Well… Yeah.

    • notsure@fedia.io
      51·
      10 days ago

      …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…