It's not really clickbait per se, but to non-economists, saying "they made a model of the U.S. economy" may sound like they did a novel thing. Bear in mind that

It's not really clickbait per se, but to non-economists, saying "they made a model of the U.S. economy" may sound like they did a novel thing. Bear in mind that creating models of the economy is basically what macroeconomists do all the time.