Paul Krugman

After Donald Trump's 2016 election win, stock markets will not recover from their election-night fall.

Inaccurate ●●●●●
“If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”
Said on
9 November 2016 · New York Times election-night opinion piece "The Economic Fallout", written as results came in; quoted by SBS News
Source
Paul Krugman predicts a global recession after Trump's win · SBS News
Should come true
No date given
How sure they sounded
a first-pass answer
Categories
MarketsElections
Importance
3 of 5 · A call on the direction of US and global financial markets following a presidential election.

Outcome

Inaccurate Happened 10 November 2016.

Overnight futures losses reversed by the next day. The Dow closed at a record high on November 10, 2016 and topped 19,000 on November 22. Markets recovered within days, not "never." Krugman partly retracted the call on November 11, 2016.

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