Brian Tyler Cohen On Fighting Back against Trump Corruption
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What disconnect exists between Trump's economic claims and reality?
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Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtyjä artesaanituotteita myyvän Jaui lahjakaupan perustaja. Valitsin Shopify, koska alustoja testatessani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helppokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkalut, kuten varaston suunnittelu, ovat kätevästi dashboardissa. Aloita ilmainen kokeilu shopify.com-sivustolla. Olen Shannon Maldonado, käsintehtyjä artesaanituotteita myyvän Jaui lahjakaupan perustaja. Valitsin Shopify, koska alustoja testatessani totesin sen ehdottomasti yhdeksi helppokäyttöisimmistä alustoista. Minulla oli tärkeää pohtia kehittymistämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikki myyntiin tarvittavat työkalut, kuten varaston suunnittelu, ovat kätevästi dashboardissa.
Aloita ilmainen kokeilu shopify.com-sivustolla.
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How are independent media outlets exposing economic struggles?
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Donald Trump is losing control as it's increasingly clear that the national financial data that gets released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies within the Trump regime seem to be a lot like Donald Trump's personal finances. They seem to basically be fake, inflated, and deflated. And I think the American people are starting to understand what's going on. And there were a lot of people saying, ah, you know, you could still trust the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they're going to still be accurate. I really, under the Trump regime, sorry, because this data that we see is raising massive red flags. And I tend to trust the consumer sentiment where consumers, the people, kind of like the people I talk to who feel that right now things are worse than
Then during the Great Depression, the worst consumer surveys, like basically in the history of the surveys, that seems to be where most people are right now and not what the Trump regime is putting out there. Also, the Trump regime keeps putting out all of these massive revisions, which they said, oh, we're never going to do these revisions on jobs numbers. But it turns out that even when you get like a bad job print It's actually much worse than that, and you find out a few months later. I want to bring in Brian Tyler Cohen, the author of the new book as well, The Day After, How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World, to go over this data with me. Brian, let's just go through some of this data together, and then I got questions for you.
So you take a look at this over here. The Kobelasi Letter reports this. Since the start of 2025, U.S. job numbers have now been revised down in 14 out of 17 months by a total job loss of 710,000 jobs. So the May and April jobs numbers were revised down by a total of 74,000, and those job numbers were not good to begin with. That's the largest two-month downward revision since December. April jobs were revised down by 31,000, to 148,000. May jobs revised down by 43,000 to 129,000 jobs.
What evidence challenges the credibility of Trump's economic data?
This means 41,000 or so jobs have been revised out of previously reported data on average in each period per month at this point.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What disconnect exists between Trump's economic claims and reality?
0:00–2:10
2
How are independent media outlets exposing economic struggles?
2:10–4:33
3
What evidence challenges the credibility of Trump's economic data?
4:33–7:12
4
How does consumer sentiment reflect the true state of the economy?
7:12–9:45
5
What reforms are necessary to address economic inequality?
9:45–12:34
6
How does corruption affect the functioning of democracy?
12:34–16:07
7
What role does accountability play in restoring public trust?
16:07–18:18
8
How can individuals wield power in a post-Trump world?
18:18–20:21