I hear that Bannon is pushing Heritage Chief Economist EJ Antoni for BLS Commissioner.
EJ Antoni: Source: Heritage Foundation, accessed 8/7/2025.
If he is nominated, I’ll just observe that he declared (with St. Onge) a recession starting in 2022 [1]. And another recession in starting in July or August 2024 –[2], [3]– without ever having declared the recession of 2022 ended. Taken literally, he believes we have been — and remain even today — in recession.
For the record:
EJ Antoni/Heritage: “Back from the Brink: Trump’s Economy Soars Instead of Crashing”
The Great Replacement “Theory” * Comes to Economics at Heritage
