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Is there a line chart or a stacked area chart of this over time?

This seems to confirm that Joe Biden created the most jobs of any president in recent modern history.

Joe Biden "created" jobs the way covid "created" job vacancies. Maybe time periods with worldwide upheaval should be taken with a little salt.

That doesn't make sense. Could you explain what you mean?

Here we're looking for a change in the slope of that job creation line

We're looking for a change in slope based on overarching economic policy as a means of comparing two political parties. A global disaster is not a policy.

So find the chart and look at the trend, and add annotations for administration start and end dates with consideration for lag, and then annotate the chart to indicate the partisan balance of Congress at that time.

When you cut revenue and increase expenses and the real problem here is disease in the world

Joe Biden also presided over the largest America that ever existed, and took power at a moment when a huge rebound in jobs was inevitable.

So you haven't disagreed that Joe Biden is the greatest job creating president ever?

You've just helped explain that job creation was necessary due to the disaster performance of his predecessors.

Yes, but as a person with good number sense I am pretty good at discounting absolute levels for population change, and I feel like most people aren't any good at that, so I like to mention it. The majority of press articles that are about "[[Thing]] hits record high" turn out to lose their novelty when recast per capita.

> population change

How does that affect the job growth statistic?

Why are you ignoring Covid? Any president woulda ended 2020 with jobs losses.

Because they forced the bond yield curve inversion in August 2019, forcing the NY Fed to do repos.

Bond yield curve inversion prior to COVID and probably due to what they had done economically by then

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