U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of data.

The terminations by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were effective February 28 and communicated on Tuesday via email to one of the panels, the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC), which assisted with inflation and employment gross domestic product (GDP) data.

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    5 hours ago

    Not an accelerationist but this will allow them to go faster while breaking things and even they won’t know if they’re about to hit a tree. The only indicator would be the screams of the working class, which bodes well for a regime change.