We asked you, our readers, how we needed to change the way we write about the economy and what we as opinion writers – and the rest of the news media – were getting wrong.

You weren't shy about telling us.

At times, you said we were too focused on criticizing President Donald Trump and not on what is actually happening in the economy under his administration. The financial world did not fall down, for example, despite warnings by tariff doomsayers, you said.

But there was also a large number of you who said the president gets a pass on too many of the bizarre things he utters, including statements that are provably untrue, like a mathematically impossible 1,000% reduction in prescription drug prices. Other readers said market numbers often cited don't reflect the day-to-day struggle you're feeling to buy groceries and pay bills.

Read a collection of these responses below, or send in your own to us at forum@usatoday.com using the subject line "Forum media economy."

Our economy is in absolute shambles. While the stock market is riding high in an overhyped artificial intelligence bubble, American families are struggling to pay for necessities like groceries and energy bills.

Gross domestic product is growing, but people have........

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