"pointed out the problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to explain how someone identified an issue. For example, "The manager pointed out the problem and set up a plan to fix it."
However, in Book I Aristotle has already pointed out the problem of bodily and external goods in relation to happiness.
To this regard we analysed the literature and considered studies that already pointed out the problem of fragmentation in the field of digital scholarship.
The police pointed out the problem.
Reviewing USSC Dayton's request, Diskin said that the ISA agreed with the USSC, although it pointed out the problem of directly transferring equipment to the PG.
But, as he pointed out, "the problem with Freud is that he never had to play the Glasgow Empire second house on a Friday night".
But he pointed out: "The problem evidentially would be proving whether or not the person who approached individuals for money or loans actually had the power to procure the title.
As the report points out, the problem is not the absence of binding laws, but the persistent failure to comply with or enforce them.
We point out the problem with this initial device, discuss possible causes and suggest areas of improvement and further work.
We point out the problems of [2, 6, 7] and revise them.
That is why I am so inclined to defend the shorts; it was the likes of James Chanos who pointed out the problems at Enron or David Einhorn with Lehman.
They might have pointed out the problems of the past, when he was construed to have declared his footballing allegiance to anyone but England.
