A Good Jobs Report Does Not Mean A Rigged Jobs Report

The jobs report released this morning was shockingly good — which immediately made some people question whether it was too good to be true. The most high-profile skeptic was left-leaning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who wondered on Twitter whether the Trump administration had “gotten to” the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which produces the jobs report. (He apologized a few hours later.) But while it’s hardly the first time conspiracy theories about the report have circulated, it would be a big mistake to assume that the...