Companies Enhance Economic Data Products With Trust in US Statistics Wavering

Private-sector companies are beefing up their alternatives to US government statistics, seizing a moment of uncertainty around federal data.

One platform is providing its data free to the public, a major break from what’s otherwise largely been a for-profit enterprise. Others are investing in their statistics and publishing them more frequently, responding to client demands for real-time information at a time when government policy, and the economy at large, are rapidly changing.