- What's wrong with the economy? Climate change, for one. https://grist.org/economics/whats-wrong-with-the-economy-climate-change-inflation-supply-chain/ 7 comments politics
- Baby boomers are what's wrong with America's economy http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-baby-boomers-american-economy-20151107-story.html 48 comments politics
- Joe Biden: 'Something is wrong' with economy http://www.wapt.com/politics/joe-biden-something-is-wrong-with-economy/35141378 13 comments politics
- Business Insider breaks down what is really wrong with the economy http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-wrong-with-economy-charts-2012-10 3 comments politics
- Ben Stein's Anti-Capitalist (but convincing) Rant About What's Wrong With America's Economy http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11130 126 comments reddit.com
- Larry Kudlow may have been more wrong about the economy than anyone alive https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/larry-kudlow-may-have-been-more-wrong-about-the-economy-than-anyone-alive/2018/03/14/a98f2292-27ce-11e8-b79d-f3d931db7f68_story.html 60 comments politics
- Where Modi has gone wrong with India's economy https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/modinomics-has-turned-into-muddlenomics-1755869?type=news&id=1755869&category=opinion 14 comments india
- Britain’s Economy Was Resilient After ‘Brexit.’ Its Leaders Learned the Wrong Lesson. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/11/upshot/britains-economy-was-resilient-after-brexit-its-leaders-learned-the-wrong-lesson.html 10 comments europe
- ‘Frozen’ might be everything that’s wrong with the U.S. economy http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/11/21/frozen-might-be-everything-thats-wrong-with-the-u-s-economy/?post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost 5 comments nottheonion
- Trump is wrong. Norwegian immigrants are not better than Haitians for the US economy https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/a-norwegian-immigrant-is-not-better-than-a-haitian-for-the-economy-commentary.html 4 comments politics
- Why some people think Hurricane Harvey is good for the economy (and why they are wrong) http://www.learnliberty.org/blog/why-some-people-think-hurricane-harvey-is-good-for-the-economy-and-why-they-are-wrong/ 4 comments economy
- What's wrong with our economy? One simple photo explains american consumerism run amok. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanjustalan/2277072409/ 6 comments reddit.com
- Trump's Davos speech instantly shot down by leading economist: 'The characterisation of the economy is totally wrong' https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-speech-davos-2020-greta-thunberg-wef-economy-a9294466.html 20 comments politics
- The Fed just warned that companies are stockpiling debt and using it for all the wrong reasons — and that could be disastrous if the economy sinks https://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-debt-bubble-crisis-obligations-stockpiled-for-wrong-reasons-2019-5 105 comments politics
- Trump Wrongly Touts Economy Growth Milestone vs. Unemployment https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/trump-wrongly-touts-economy-growth-milestone-versus-unemployment 4 comments politics
- IMF admits it got it wrong on English economy - spending cuts and tax increases caused growth, not contraction. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10884632/do-i-have-to-go-on-my-knees-grovelling-apology-from-imf-head-for-incorrect-warnings-on-uk-economy.html 49 comments economy
- What’s Wrong with the Economy? "The reason the US economy is still sluggish 4 years after Lehman Brothers defaulted, is of lack of demand..." http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/24/whats-wrong-with-the-economy/print 71 comments politics
- "We think Geithner is suffering from five fundamental misconceptions about what is wrong with the economy. Here they are ..." http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/216311/part-i-geithner's-plan-%22extremely-dangerous%22-economist-galbraith-says?tickers=%5Egspc,%5Edji,c,bac,jpm,wfc?sec=topstories&pos=2&asset=tbd&ccode=tbd 7 comments business
- US economy expanding? The doomsayers (like me?) have been proved wrong. The consensus is now that it is very likely that the US economy would see inflation drop back to pre-pandemic levels without having to go into a slump – in other words, a ‘soft landing’. https://www.cadtm.org/US-economy-expanding 41 comments economy
- New Normal or No Normal? How Economists Got It Wrong for 3 Years. Not only has the recession failed to materialize, but growth has been surprisingly fast. “The forecasts have been embarrassingly wrong, in the entire forecasting community. We are still trying to figure out how this new economy works" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/business/economy/economy-interest-rates-inflation.html 55 comments economy
- Bloomberg gets its recession forecast 100% wrong, but Biden can't get any respect for strong economy. Bloomberg made its 100% recession forecast about three weeks before the 2022 midterms. On Tuesday Bloomberg wrote that the economy was doing much better than expected. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/21/2200289/-Bloomberg-gets-its-recession-forecast-100-wrong-but-Biden-can-t-get-any-respect-for-strong-economy 39 comments economy
- Donald Trump is ‘just wrong’ about the economy, says Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-wrong-economy-nobel-prize-joseph-stiglitz-202041681.html 311 comments politics
- Joseph Stiglitz Says Standard Economics Is Wrong. Inequality and Unearned Income Kills the Economy http://evonomics.com/joseph-stiglitz-inequality-unearned-income/ 10 comments politics
- Robert Reich on Economy: Jeb Wrong About Americans Needing To Work More; "The Goal Is Not Growth Per Se" http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/07/09/robert_reich_on_economy_jeb_wrong_about_americans_needing_to_work_more_the_goal_is_not_growth_per_se.html 4 comments politics
- Scott Walker Gets Schooled by His Neighbor: that Minnesota’s economy rallied under progressive policies while Wisconsin’s has struggled is “one more data point proving that trickle down is wrong,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/10/scott-walker-gets-schooled-by-his-neighbor.html 487 comments politics
- What is wrong with Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia now consumes more oil than Germany, an industrialized country with triple the population and an economy five times larger http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/04/oil 12 comments economy
- Rand Paul Couldn't Be More Wrong About Unemployment Insurance Unemployment insurance isn't keeping people from taking work. It's keeping them from giving up looking for it. And giving the economy a little boost too. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/rand-paul-couldnt-be-more-wrong-about-unemployment-insurance/282144/ 38 comments politics
- Spain has been in the wrong time zone since WW2, when it changed to German time in sympathy for Hitler. As a result, Spanish people are less healthy and productive, slowing the economy. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/09/26/spaniards-are-less-productive-constantly-tired-because-spain-is-in-the-wrong-time-zone/ 3 comments worldnews
- Fox Gets "Right-To-Work" Wrong - Fox News contributors Steve Moore and Matt McCall falsely claimed that passage of "right-to-work" laws would benefit workers and the economy in Michigan. In fact, economic studies of similar laws have found that they lead to lower wages and do not increase employment http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/07/fox-gets-right-to-work-wrong/191746 425 comments politics
- Colorado Tax Enforcer Tells ’60 Minutes’: Weed Beat the Recession in Denver -- That runs contrary to President Barack Obama’s logic: he said in 2010 that legalizing marijuana is not “a good strategy to grow our economy.” Denver appears to be proving the president wrong. http://www.alternet.org/drugs/colorado-tax-enforcer-tells-60-minutes-weed-beat-recession-denver 3 comments politics
- Romney’s magic economy plan: The GOP candidate promises that the mere fact of his victory will fix the economy. He's wrong. http://www.salon.com/2012/10/14/romneys_magic_economy_plan/ 27 comments politics
- "But the Solyndra story is not a scandal. It is an inevitable bump on the road to a clean-energy economy. And almost everything Americans think they know about Solyndra is wrong." http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/quit-outrage-solyndra-article-1.1154467#ixzz2653nm8q3 10 comments politics
- Greed Is The Beginning of Everything --- Interview with Tomas Sedlacek, freethinking Czech economist and philosopher. "Complicated mathematical models are simply wrong or pointless at best. The real question should be: Is the economy working the way we want it to?" http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,822981,00.html 47 comments worldnews
- Bernanke, You Stupid Bastard. EVERY prediction you've made about the economy over the last five years has been wrong. All of them. In ONE DAY the entire impact of your so-called "QE2" was ERASED. http://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=180591 32 comments economy
- America's Two Economies: With corporate profits through the roof, the Dow flirting with 12,000, and corporations sitting on $1 trillion in cash, you’d expect jobs would be coming back. You’d be wrong. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/jobs-report/ 5 comments politics
- Germany’s central bank a century ago was convinced that printing money to finance the Great War was ‘exogenous’ to the domestic economy and thus not inflationary; the hyperinflation that followed proved them wrong. http://seekingalpha.com/article/236396-the-dollar-every-man-for-himself?source=hp_editors_picks 3 comments economy
- CBO releases latest analysis of effect of stimulus on the American economy - looks like the Republicans are on the wrong side of this as well.... http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=1326 26 comments politics
- The debate about fixing the financial crisis seems to be missing a key factor -- a broad ethical discussion of what is the right and wrong thing to do in a modern economy. http://www.reuters.com/article/gc04/idustre6231h320100304 5 comments philosophy
- We were told that by reducing taxes on business, jobs are produced, and the economy is helped. When jobs started going overseas, we were told they would be replaced by high-tech jobs, and U.S. workers would have higher pay and better working conditions. And as we've seen, we were told wrong. http://www.theseminal.com/2009/07/04/parasites/ 18 comments politics
- Yesterday: McCain adviser says nothing wrong with US economy. Today: Lehman Bros. files for bankruptcy protection. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7615931.stm 34 comments politics