“My economy, it’s the greatest, most luxurious economy ever.”
“Can I see it?” “No.”lol basically
It is for him and his toadies
people are concerned
In China, they don’t release data if it makes the government look bad!
PragerU ahh graph
😌
Everything is fine, I’m sure. Why would you need a big costly report if everything is good? Like, you don’t go get a CT scan if you’re feeling completely healthy.
meanwhile your patient’s A&O times 0 and they’re coughing up blood
it’s mostly a researcher and analyst problem, but part of the administrative state is supplying data and metrics for downstream data consumers. this can be state government agencies, university research teams, advocacy-oriented non profits / community groups, and all those “private sector” for-profit groups that replicate public sector work while charging suckers for access to their digests.
i’ve been around public data consumption for a while, and people get complacent about access to basic government data like national weather service records, soil surveys, historic labor/economic data, whatever. the last years have seen hiccups where something was moved / just plain missing, or the data request system was broken for a while, but for the most part the disruptions are understood to be temporary.
but this year is when its become a hypernormalizing phenomenon that some basic shit is just gone, and it’s unknown if it was purposely removed (as is the case with this BS, likely) or just lost because key personnel got DOGE’d and/or took the early payout and orphaned some critical process.
it’s also unclear if it projects can be recovered in the forseeable future assuming the restoration of political will. you’ve got units that used to be dozens of people reduced to 2-3, sometimes those being the least senior people who were still being trained, then they went unpaid for 6 weeks all the while uncertain if or when another huge shuffle would happen.
Concerning. Looking into it
