Wall Street Gets Kicked in the Wallet: $1.1 Trillion Vanishes & Trump Fires Stat Guy
That same day, the jobs report came out — and let me tell you, it wasn’t exactly a Hollywood blockbuster. Only 79,000 jobs added, instead of the expected 104,000. Sounds like the economy’s having a mild case of the sniffles, but investors? They freaked out. Especially when it turned out the guy responsible for tallying those numbers, Erika McEntarfer of the BLS, might have just been fired for doing her job—Trump called her figures “rigged,” as if the numbers themselves auditioned for a con artist gig.






