Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Last week, after the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics announced an unexpected decline in September’s
unemployment rate, former General Electric Co. Chief Executive
Officer Jack Welch questioned the credibility of the data.
In an attempt to influence the presidential campaign, he
suggested, the Obama administration must have manipulated the
bureau’s report, which showed the jobless rate at 7.8 percent, a
statistically significant drop from 8.1 percent in August.
“These Chicago guys will do anything,” Welch wrote in a Twitter
message, “can’t debate so change numbers.”
