In his Oct. 26 letter to The Public Fourm, Jay Blackett is squinting at his essentially correct data. His conclusion is at best misleading.
I invite everyone to do a computer search on the same indicators Blackett used for the last 10 years. You will see the Dow Industrial Average bottomed in January, 2009, the year Barack Obama became president, and it has steadily increased since. The unemployment rates (all of the ones he used) peaked near the end of 2009 and have steadily decreased since. And, finally, household income dropped for the first two years of Obama’s presidency (the lag due to the Great Recession), bottomed out and then began a steady increase in his second term that has continued since.