Fact Checker Archive: Economy
Obama and the White House's 'halfway' fixation with the budget
The White House insists they have gone "halfway" to the GOP on budget cuts. We look at the White House argument and find it wanting.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 8, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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3 Pinocchios, Barack Obama, Economy
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Democrats keep misleading on claimed budget 'cuts'
Democrats kept saying they have already made $51 billion in cuts in the budget. Saying it doesn't make it so.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 4, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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2 Pinocchios, Economy, Nancy Pelosi
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Four pinocchios for the American public on the budget
Americans show an appalling lack of knowledge about how their government spends their tax dollars.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 3, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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4 Pinocchios, Economy, issue context
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Mitch Daniels's memory lapse on the budget surplus
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says the budget surpluses at the start of the George W. Bush administration would have disappeared anyway, tax cut or no tax cut. He's forgotten what he said at the time.
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Glenn Kessler
| March 1, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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3 Pinocchios, Economy, Mitch Daniels
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Huckabee's inflated national debt figures
Mike Huckabee is on the right track when talking about the national debt, but he jumped the gun on a key fact.
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Glenn Kessler
| February 28, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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1 Pinocchio, Economy, Mike Huckabee
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Lessons from the great government shutdown of 1995-1996
The 1995-1996 government shutdown was a traumatic defeat for Republicans. What lessons can the party's lawmakers learn from history?
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Glenn Kessler
| February 25, 2011; 6:00 AM ET |
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Economy, issue context
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