I'm trying to wrap my head around the Trump administration's efforts to prevent states from releasing early data on unemployment claims. Is it unreasonable to be suspicious? No, it's unreasonable not to be suspicious 1/ nytimes.com/2020/03/19/bus… 
The idea that you should suppress information to calm markets isn't based on any economic theory I know about. So is this just an attempt to avoid bad news cycles, sort of like the delays in Covid-19 testing? 2/
There are darker stories you might tell — stories I would have dismissed under previous administrations, but can't under these people. Will insiders get an early look and trade on it? Ridiculous, things like that don't ... oh, wait 3/ washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-r…
And let's remember both that Trump and other Rs constantly accused the Obama administration of falsifying economic data and that right-wing conspiracy theories usually involve projecting what they have done or would do 4/
I really don't know. But this sure looks as if the people who played down a health crisis are gearing up to play down the economic crisis that their earlier neglect caused 5/
