Finally a well made reply! =P
You're right that this data does show a awful recession, I've never believed this was anything less for America. However it wasn't a depression (to the best of my knowledge at least) and isn't a full scale catastrophe.
These graphs do show concerning things but they hugely exaggerate them by not taking into account inflation. Most of the graphs shown are rendered near useless by not taking into account inflation, you can only view adjacent points with any reasonable fairness - not the entire timeline.
Also it's worth noting that most of the graphs do not include the only economic crisis worse than the latest one, the great depression.
I may have been overly dismissive of the information presented in the graphs but blatant abuse of statistics irks me.
"Statistics are like ladies of the night, once you have them down you can do what you like to them"
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