Justin Fox, Columnist

Some of Trump's Economic Stats Are True

He's still wrong about taxes, though.

December 14, 2016 at 6:30 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

Not every number is a snow job.
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During his campaign and even since becoming president-elect, Donald Trump has said a lot of things and cited a lot of figures that appear to be completely made up.

When he has talked about the economy, though, Trump has often relied on actual government statistics.