“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”
What PolitiFact found
On the one hand, every other major industrialized nation has seen inflation spike well above pre-inflation levels. However, the United States has seen its inflation rate spike higher than its most direct competitors.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 16 June 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 June 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
Links recorded by PolitiFact. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.