Dubya, The Jobless Wonder

Over at A Fistful Of Euros, I got involved in a discussion about the US employment level and Bush's effect on it, with special attention to various statistics used to track it. I got deeply into the details, but Frans Groenendijk made the point that the big picture can be lost while doing so, and he impressively proved it on his website.

While we can debate what factors are behind the changes in one single graph, or debate the merits of two seemingly contradictory graphs, just glance at the eight graphs Frans lined up: the correlated turn-of-worse on all of them from the start of Bush's presidency makes the point.