The Trump administration has disappeared statistics on the economy, public health, and more from public access.
A lot of crucial employment reports were expected to come out this week, but the partial shutdown has delayed that.
The survey sheds light on how consumers feel about the economy at a time when government reports have been postponed or canceled due to the shutdown.
Overall, import prices remained unchanged. But that's before you add in tariffs.
The shutdown could still result in a delayed data release.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics usually collects data in real time. So it may not be able to capture October prices or jobs data that was missed during the shutdown.
While some regional Fed banks have hard data, many of those figures come from agencies that are closed during the shutdown.
“If we don’t know what the quality of the data will be. Well, that’s uncertainty. That’s risky,” says Columbia finance professor Laura Veldkamp.
The Department says the report was “politicized.” Researchers say it was vital.
Nicole Cervi at Wells Fargo explains how she uses public inflation and jobs data in her work.
![Without robust government data, "as time goes by, the basis for [Fed] policy decision-making will become more shaky,” warned former Fed economist David Wilcox.](https://img.apmcdn.org/13704a7c56f0a9a2140c00f0b3a8cbd8e481ba80/widescreen/f84ec0-20251028-the-seal-of-the-us-federal-reserve-webp2000.webp)
