Statistics are statitstics...a graph doeant care about where the start was, it only cares about the growth. If we must look to what he was given, let's look at a different metric during the same time frame. US government debt...76.4 MILLION in 2016, 79.2 in 2019, prior to covid. Let's take a look at manufacturing jobs...net lost 60k MANUFACTURING Jobs between 2017 and 2019...shall I go on about the economy, let's take a look at Bond rates, as those are the best indicator of the strength of the dollar.....in 2016, a 30 year Federal bond would have yielded you 3.06% in return, in 2019 the same bond would return a yield of 2.39%. Just as a point of reference that same bond in 2008 would have brought you 2.69%
