Why do pessimistic pundits keep getting Trump’s economy so wrong?
By Stephen Moore
Published Dec. 23, 2025, 5:52 p.m. ET
Even more surprising than the blockbuster 4.3% economic growth rate recorded in the third quarter of 2025 was the fact that some 90% of the nation’s professional economists got it all wrong.
These economic whiz-kids’ faulty forecast comes on the heels of their predictions last week that inflation was going to be above 3%. Instead, the actual number was 2.7%.
Welcome to the gang that can’t shoot straight.
Maybe it’s time for this cadre of Keynesian economists to send their PhDs back to the Ivy League schools they got them from, and just admit they have no idea what they’re talking about.
Their overly glum predictions were the pattern throughout President Donald Trump’s first term, and now during Trump 2.0.
At the start of both of Trump’s terms, even Nobel prize-winning economists like Paul Krugman — long the economic sage at The New York Times — predicted a stock market crash and even perhaps a second Great Depression with Trump in the Oval Office.
Instead, in the first term the economy boomed.
You’d think by now they’d have learned their lesson.
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