Why do pessimistic pundits keep getting Trump's economy so wrong? | New York Post

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. - Stephen Moore

• 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%...

Their overly glum predictions were the pattern throughout President 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...