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رشد اقتصادی سال ۱۴۰۲ یکی از باکیفیتترین رشدهای اقتصادی تمام سالهای اخیر اقتصاد ایران است.
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
"Look at the Michigan survey, where 65% of the American people think they're in good shape economically. They think the nation's not in good shape, but they're personally in good shape."
Publisher’s rating: Trend is accurate; details wrong
"We have the strongest economy in the world. Let me say it again, in the world."
Publisher’s rating: Basically right
"Snickers bar, they did a thing, and it’s like 20% less for the same price."
Publisher’s rating: The company denies this
"The idea that you bounce a check and you get a $30 fee for bouncing the check, well, I changed that. You can't charge more than 8 bucks for that. Or your credit card, your late payment, $35."
Publisher’s rating: One is enacted, the other isn't
“Tenemos 1,000 multimillonarios en Estados Unidos. ¿Sabes cuál es en promedio su impuesto federal? 8.3%”.
Publisher’s rating: Engañoso
“La inflación era del 9% cuando llegué al cargo”.
Publisher’s rating: Falso
The review says inflation was 1.4% when Biden took office in January 2021, not 9%. It reports that inflation later rose to 9.1% in June 2022.
“He creado más de 15 millones de empleos desde que soy presidente, 15 millones, en tres años, tres y un trimestre”.
Publisher’s rating: Falta contexto
The review says U.S. employment increased by 15.7 million jobs from January 2021 through April 2024 (or 15.4 million excluding January 2021). It cautions that many of those jobs were recoveries of pandemic-related losses: more than 21.9 million jobs were lost in March and April 2020, and 11.4 million had been recovered in the following five months.
"Wenn manche Leute sagen, wir sind ein Netto-Zahler-Land. (...) Ja, stimmt. Wir zahlen direkt mehr als wir kriegen. (...) Aber es ist genauso richtig, dass wir am Ende an Europa verdienen, das heißt nämlich dann, wenn der ganze Export und alles mit hineingerechnet wird."
Publisher’s rating: Der erste Teil der Aussage von Noichl ist richtig. Deutschland ist ein sogenannter Netto-Zahler innerhalb der Europäischen Union. Zudem ist richtig, dass weitere Faktoren wie Exporte und davon abhängige Arbeitsplätze eine Rolle spielen bei der Frage, welche Vorteile Deutschland von der EU-Mitgliedschaft hat.
“Reducir aún más el déficit, de lo que he podido reducirlo”.
Publisher’s rating: Falta contexto
The review says the deficit fell in 2021 and 2022, but notes that pandemic relief spending had contributed to the high 2020 baseline. It adds that spending rose again in 2023 and cites a Congressional Budget Office forecast of a $1.6 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2024.
“Aparte de Herbert Hoover, [Trump] es el único otro presidente que perdió más empleos de los que creó en sus cuatro años de mandato".
Publisher’s rating: Falta contexto
The review says Trump’s record showed a net loss of 2.9 million jobs, using BLS figures from January 2017 to December 2021. It says the total was heavily affected by pandemic job losses in March and April 2020, and notes that more than 12 million jobs had been recovered by December 2020.
ویدیوی کارگران افغانستانی در حال تولید پپسی و کوکاکولا در کارگاه زیرزمینی در شهرضا
Publisher’s rating: نادرست
Elon Musk promueve Bitcoin Billionaire para multiplicar ingresos en un mes, como muestra este video
Publisher’s rating: Falso / Manipulado
"The people that benefited the most (from the tax cuts Donald Trump signed) are lower-income people."
Publisher’s rating: Incorrect
The U.S. is experiencing "record kinds of inflation."
Publisher’s rating: Incorrect