PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

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

"The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic."

Publisher’s rating: False

TweetsEconomy & business

"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"(The) top issue for college students is the economy."

Publisher’s rating: True

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

“Let’s be clear. The failure of Silicon Valley Bank is a direct result of an absurd 2018 bank deregulation bill signed by Donald Trump that I strongly opposed."

Publisher’s rating: Experts Are Divided

PolitiFactEconomy & business

A “brand new financial relief program available for Americans" provides $5,000 in cash.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Emergency stimulus loans “are finally available to U.S. citizens up to $5,000 even with poor credit.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Charles PayneEconomy & business

"When President Obama was elected, the market crashed … Trump was up 9%, President Obama was down 14.8% and President Bush was down almost 4%. There is an instant reaction on Wall Street."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Kirsten GillibrandEconomy & business

A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.”

Publisher’s rating: True

Washington PostEconomy & business

“If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Publisher’s rating: Four Pinocchios

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says Joe Biden “passed a tax bill that gave us all these privileges for depreciation and for tax credits. We built a building, and we get tax credits like the hotel on Pennsylvania Ave.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Diesel prices jumped from $1.69 to $3.19 since Biden took office, and the president is to blame.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Under the Democrats’ Build Back Better bill, “the experts are telling us that 30% of middle class Americans will end up paying higher taxes” while giving “a tax break to two-thirds of the millionaires in America.”

Publisher’s rating: Needs context

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Walmart management is helping with rising prices with $500 grocery cards for $2.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Bernie SandersEconomy & business

"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“FUN FACT: West Virginia is home to zero billionaires.”

Publisher’s rating: True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says Bill Gates will provide "money-500K, car, phone, visa" or other gifts if you email him.

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"Democrats' radical green energy policies caused record gas prices. "

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False