It's personal banking balances. The focus is on three points: January 2020, January 2021, and January 2023. ~~#2 is Biden's inauguration.~~ Edit... The very annoying lib pointed that out to me that #2 is the enactment of the "American Rescue Act of 2021" in March, 2021.

Any economist can look at the vertical line of #1 and #3 but entirely skip #2 and say "There's been an increase from 2020 to 2023." A huge problem in economics is that many of economists never speak to typical people and they especially avoid poor people. Their heads are only filled with numbers and data.

They often act like typical people are morons who don't know anything and don't understand anything. They are smug when polling shows many Americans feel worse off. But people are concerned about the fall from #2 to #3.

Of course - economics colors the media and politics. Pundit brain and DC brain etc are similar to economist brain. Biden and his team come out with PR that "Bidenomics is working!" without understanding how typical Americans will view their rose-colored perspective. Democrats are flummoxed why people don't get it.

This is all very predictable yet it happens all the time