The dismissal of the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is raising questions about the reliability of U.S. data. Host Carmel Crimmins gets a briefing on the importance of data by U.S. economics editor Dan Burns and emerging markets chief correspondent Karin Strohecker, and what lies ahead if economists can't trust it. 

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