Fact check: Trump wrong on tax rates and Canada

In an interview with The Economist, US President Donald Trump got a number of economic facts wrong.

Fact check: Trump wrong on tax rates and Canada

In an interview with The Economist, US President Donald Trump got a number of economic facts wrong.

His figures on the Canada-US trade balance were upside down, he misplaced the US in the world ranks of tax burdens and claimed to have coined an economic phrase that has been familiar to economists for some 80 years.

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