Fact Check reported on a claim made by US Presidential Candidate Joe Biden that farm bankruptcies increased last year “due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.” Senior Research Fellow Joseph Glauber said it was impossible to know what caused the bankruptcies because so little information about those farm operations is publicly available. “I don’t think it is knowable. Were they cotton producers? Dairy farms? We just don’t know anything about those farms. We just know they filed bankruptcy under a tax code that is available only to farmers.” Republished in Brazil Business Today.
Examining Biden’s farm bankruptcy claim (Fact Check)
June 02, 2020