{"id":346543,"date":"2025-08-07T15:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/and-you-want-to-be-my-latex-salesman-bls-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:12:31","slug":"and-you-want-to-be-my-latex-salesman-bls-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/and-you-want-to-be-my-latex-salesman-bls-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd you want to be my latex salesman?\u201d (BLS edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-57518\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I hear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-06\/bannon-pushes-ej-antoni-for-bls-wants-maga-republican-in-role\">Bannon is pushing Heritage Chief Economist EJ Antoni for BLS Commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ejantonipix.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57519\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ejantonipix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ejantonipix.jpg 400w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ejantonipix-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ejantonipix-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>EJ Antoni: <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/ej-antoni-phd\">Heritage Foundation<\/a>, accessed 8\/7\/2025.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If he is nominated, I\u2019ll just observe that he declared (with St. Onge) a recession starting in 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/10\/recession-since-2022-magic-asterisk-mystery-meat-special-sauce-approach-to-national-income-accounting\">[1]<\/a>. And another recession in starting in July or August 2024 \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/10\/ej-antoni-heritage-foundation-aug-5-i-would-not-be-surprised-if-a-recession-is-backdated-to-july-or-the-current-month\">[2]<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/ej-antoni-on-the-current-recession\">[3]<\/a>\u2013 without ever having declared the recession of 2022 ended. Taken literally, he believes we have been \u2014 and remain even today \u2014 in recession.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the record:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"TCjbMeu2Vj\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/07\/ej-antoni-heritage-back-from-the-brink-trumps-economy-soars-instead-of-crashing\">EJ Antoni\/Heritage: \u201cBack from the Brink: Trump\u2019s Economy Soars Instead of Crashing\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cEJ Antoni\/Heritage: \u201cBack from the Brink: Trump\u2019s Economy Soars Instead of Crashing\u201d\u201d \u2014 Econbrowser\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/07\/ej-antoni-heritage-back-from-the-brink-trumps-economy-soars-instead-of-crashing\/embed#?secret=OhmIfeMZlV#?secret=TCjbMeu2Vj\" data-secret=\"TCjbMeu2Vj\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"j1KfYQqrj0\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/the-great-replacement-theory-comes-to-economics-at-heritage\">The Great Replacement \u201cTheory\u201d * Comes to Economics at Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cThe Great Replacement \u201cTheory\u201d * Comes to Economics at Heritage\u201d \u2014 Econbrowser\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/the-great-replacement-theory-comes-to-economics-at-heritage\/embed#?secret=Um6981GvBE#?secret=j1KfYQqrj0\" data-secret=\"j1KfYQqrj0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/08\/and-you-want-to-be-my-latex-salesman-bls-edition\" title=\"12:28 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-08-07T12:28:50-07:00\">August 7, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->&#13;\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/08\/and-you-want-to-be-my-latex-salesman-bls-edition\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#13; &#13; &#13; I hear that Bannon is pushing Heritage Chief Economist EJ Antoni for BLS Commissioner. EJ Antoni: Source: Heritage Foundation, accessed 8\/7\/2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}