According to online reports, Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, said that Kugler had missed the most recent FOMC meeting for personal reasons, so I think this statement is more credible. But this provides an opportunity for US President Trump to install super doves. Even more disturbing is the dismissal of the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Although something clearly went wrong with the agency and the data were revised on an unprecedented scale, it is unprecedented for a president to fire officials simply because he disliked the data without really determining why, and it does not bode well. This raises questions about the credibility and fairness of the information. If the statisticians are subject to the president's political whims, the authenticity of these figures will be questioned.