Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

Latest Fact-Checks In Economy

Clear

Michael Moore
stated on October 2, 2009 the movie Capitalism: A Love Story:

All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.

False

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2009

Michael Moore
stated on September 29, 2009 a news conference in Washington, D.C.:

"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2009

Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.:

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."

False

By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009

George Will
stated on August 23, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

Most of the stimulus money will be spent "not this year, not next year, but in 2011."

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • August 26, 2009

Michelle Malkin
stated on August 2, 2009 on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:

A former Clinton administration official and other economists agree that "if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you're just going to extend joblessness even more."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2009

Steny Hoyer
stated on July 21, 2009 a statement on the House floor.:

There were more job losses per month in the last three months under President Bush than in the past three months under President Obama.

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 his weekly radio address:

The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"

Half-True

By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009

Robert Bennett
stated on July 15, 2009 a news release.:

The Obama administration has spent millions of taxpayer dollars for roadside signs to tout the economic stimulus.

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:

"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."

Mostly True

By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009

Jon Kyl
stated on July 12, 2009 an interview on This Week with George Stephanopolous.:

"Only about 6.8 percent of the (stimulus) money has actually been spent."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2009

Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2009 a news release.:

"Across the country, $174 billion of the Recovery Act have been committed in its first 130 days."

Mostly True

By Catharine Richert • July 15, 2009

Eric Cantor
stated on July 8, 2009 a PBS interview.:

"We were promised. The president said we would keep unemployment under 8.5 percent (if the stimulus passed)."

Mostly False

By Robert Farley • July 9, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad:

"In North Carolina, they used stimulus money to hire one new state worker. His job, apply for more stimulus funds from the taxpayers by the way of the federal government."

False

By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009

John Boehner
stated on July 2, 2009 a Web ad:

"In Wisconsin, the stimulus paid for a bridge to a bar called Rusty's Backwater Saloon. They've got great burgers, but no new jobs."

Mostly False

By Robert Farley • July 7, 2009

Democratic National Committee
stated on July 2, 2009 a television ad:

Mitch McConnell opposed "legislation to create and protect Kentucky jobs . . . help for the unemployed. . . health care for Kentucky's children," and "fair pay for women."

Mostly False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 6, 2009

Paul Krugman
stated on June 22, 2009 a column:

Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."

Mostly True

By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on June 9, 2009 a statement at the White House:

"In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."

True

By Robert Farley • June 10, 2009

Newt Gingrich
stated on May 30, 2009 an e-mail:

Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."

Pants on Fire!

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Robert Farley • June 8, 2009

John Boehner
stated on June 8, 2009 a press release.:

Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.

Mostly False

By Catharine Richert • June 8, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on May 27, 2009 a speech:

In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."

Mostly False

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 29, 2009

Previous Next