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Economy & business fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about economy & business. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

7,104 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Take home pay for workers is going up.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“While the initial increase in oil prices resulted in a near instantaneous increase in gas prices for consumers, the subsequent decrease in crude oil prices has failed to meaningfully provide relief for Georgia's families at the pump.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

On whether the state should use surplus funds for ongoing expenses.

Publisher’s rating: Half Flip

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Federal aid for state and local governments through a proposed coronavirus relief bill would amount to “half of what the Republicans put onto the national debt.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Gas prices have skyrocketed since Joe Biden took office and continue to do so everyday.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Since the end of the 2020 fiscal year, President Biden and Senator Baldwin have added over $7.3 trillion of debt, more than the first 228 years of our nation’s history combined.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"So after 50 years of being virtually empty, I built up our oil reserves during my administration ... to 100% full. It’s called the Strategic National Reserves, and it hasn’t been full for many decades."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

President Joe Biden "has successfully guided this economy out of the teeth of a terrifying recession."

Publisher’s rating: It Ended April 2020

PolitiFactEconomy & business

The Inflation Reduction Act, which Rep. Elissa Slotkin supported, “drove inflation higher.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Because wages are rising, this Thanksgiving dinner is the fourth-cheapest ever as a percentage of average earnings.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Every single McDonald’s french fry comes exclusively from potatoes grown on Bill Gates-owned farmland.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Video shows a CNN segment about “veterans cancelling their auto insurance.”

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"If you own a house, subtract what you paid for it from the Zillow estimate. Be prepared to pay 25% of that in a check to the IRS. That's your unrealized capital gains taxed owed under the Kamala Harris proposal."

Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Video shows that “George Soros is going bankrupt.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“This one here has subsidies for people making as much as $800,000 to be able to buy a Tesla.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True