Financial Times (November 15)
“The longest ever US government shutdown has created an unprecedented blind spot over the health of the world’s biggest economy as critical data reports are set to be delayed or ditched.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis and other agencies “were largely unable to collect and publish data during the 43-day shutdown, creating a gap in statistical series that will obscure the economic picture for investors and policymakers.”
Tags: Agencies, Blind spot, BLS, Collect, Data, Delayed, Economy, Gap, Government, Investors, Longest, Obscure, Publish, Reports, Shutdown, Statistical series, U.S.
Reuters (August 8)
“President Donald Trump is instructing agencies to scrap ‘reputation risk or equivalent concepts’ from the customer assessment equation.” Banks will like the reduction in paperwork, but this move will “make it harder to spot fraud.” Trump has already “rolled back enforcement of all sorts of financial misdeeds. Further clearing the way for more of them is a far bigger threat than the fanciful idea that profit-seeking banks turn away good business on purely ideological grounds.”
Tags: Agencies, Banks, Customer assessment, Enforcement, Financial misdeeds, Fraud, Ideological, Paperwork, Profit, Reputation risk, Threat, Trump
