The United States Congressional Budget Office has published an annual projection of future US national debt every year since 1984. They also sometimes review how accurate past projections were. Unsurprisingly, they typically underestimate the debt by 7%.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55234

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By 7 percentage points.

If it would be just underestimating "by 7%", then they would be incredibly good at it.

If it was exactly 7%. But it's not, it varies higher and lower than that. 7% is just the average

My point is that you are saying that they are on average wrong by 7%, but I'm guessing you mean 7pp instead. I'm being pedantic on the sentence you wrote.

That's weird... coincidentally, 7 points is also roughly the difference between the 2% rate we're typically told is "inflation" and the actual rate of monetary expansion. 🤔

Damn those coincidences!