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Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

Figure 1: GDP per capita (blue), lagged 4 years (orange), in 2017$, SAAR. Source: BEA via FRED.

Yes, by 18.6% in output terms. What about cumulative change from beginning of administration?

Figure 2: Log GDP per capita  since 2021Q1 (blue), since 2017Q1 (orange), in 2017$, SAAR. Source: BEA via FRED.

Note that even when comparing per capita income just before the pandemic to 2023Q4 output, it’s looking better under Biden.

 



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