Trump has a new proposal to limit the public’s access to economic data

Public markets require transparency, no matter how annoying that may be to executives who have to pay people to do the actual compliance, accounting and public-relations work around that report four times a year. Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images New York —

On an already head-spinning day of news for businesses and investors , the president lobbed a social media post into the mix that casually suggested regulators upend a fixture of Corporate American life for the past half-century.

ICYMI: Monday morning, President Donald Trump reignited one his first-term pet projects, saying that public companies shouldn’t be required to report earnings once every three months, but rather every six months. “This will save money, and allow managers to focus on properly running their compan