{"id":444685,"date":"2026-02-02T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:55:15","slug":"keeping-track-of-trumps-economy-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/444685\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Track Of Trump&#8217;s Economy: December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great question! Yes, it&#8217;s true that we largely pull our data from government-led agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the US Energy Information Administration. And yes, I&#8217;d be lying if I said I don&#8217;t get a bit concerned about misleading stats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a few points that bring me confidence in our data:<\/p>\n<p>1. At Economy Hate Watch, we cross-reference our data with reports published by organizations, economists, and other news outlets to ensure a fair examination. In previous editions, we&#8217;ve shared times when economists have felt the numbers presented by the Trump administration were misleading, and we&#8217;ll continue to bring you that added context.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. Many employees at these agencies have worked there for YEARS. They&#8217;ve crunched the numbers under different presidents \u2014 regardless of their party \u2014 and throughout different eras in America. When Trump bullies them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/01\/trump-firing-bureau-labor-statistics-chief-jobs-report-00488960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">and he has,<\/a> these economists are quick to call it out in a very public way and refuse to bend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to be cautious about information. We&#8217;re cautious, too, and always striving to bring you the most accurate data available. If we&#8217;re ever missing anything, feel free to leave us a comment! I read them all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is a great question! Yes, it&#8217;s true that we largely pull our data from government-led agencies like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-444685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}