PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

Economy & business fact checks

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

7,106 published reviews in this topic

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"We were losing all our cases in the World Trade Organization. ... And then I came along. Now we’re winning a lot of cases because they know that they’re not on very solid ground."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

فکت‌نامهEconomy & business

سال ۹۲ ایران فشار تحریم‌ها را پشت سر گذاشته بود.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"Wisconsin dairy farms were decimated under the Obama and Biden nightmare. ... Under the USMCA our dairy exports to Canada are expected to surge by at least 100%."

Publisher’s rating: False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"Farm bankruptcies jumped 20% last year due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war."

Publisher’s rating: There Were Many Reasons

Washington PostEconomy & business

“So the data show that we have had a lot of problems with losing jobs, but the principal reason has been bad trade policy.”

Publisher’s rating: Two Pinocchios

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says several well-known charities such as Goodwill and American Red Cross overpay their CEOs and spend a small percentage on helping people.

Publisher’s rating: Misses the mark

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Food “costs 40%, 50%, 60% more than it did just a few years ago.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems were owned by the same company, BlackRock.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Requesting a chargeback is “a better way to get back at” GoFundMe.

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

FactCheck.orgEconomy & business

"We used to invest more in research and development than any country in the world and China was ... number nine. We now are number eight and China is number one."

Publisher’s rating: Not What Data Show

PolitiFactEconomy & business

In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs are paid up to $20 million a year, while railroad workers have "zero guaranteed sick leave."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

فکت‌نامهEconomy & business

رشد نقدینگی که در پایان دولت قبل به ۴۲/۸ درصدی رسیده بود در پایان سال ۱۴۰۱ به حدود ۳۰ درصد کاهش یافت.

Publisher’s rating: گمراه‌کننده

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“If you or your family spends $28 a day — prepare to be under constant audit by the IRS.”

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says people shouldn’t make birthday donations on Facebook because the organization can claim the donation as a tax write-off, and only has to deliver 15% of the donation to the charity organization.

Publisher’s rating: False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Says Joe Biden told Americans, ‘If you elect me, your taxes are going to be raised, not cut.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

"Social Security beneficiaries count on the post office to get their checks.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True

PolitiFactEconomy & business

“Incomes are up.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

PolitiFactEconomy & business

Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”

Publisher’s rating: Half True