So Manny... why are you so pissed off all the time? Things are actually pretty good.

[SunsetDreams]

63. Daily KOS was not blaming Obama and neither

was Financial adviser Doug Short.

Kos

As can be seen, the trend has been upward since late 2010, 16 months after the National Bureau of Economic Research says the Great Recession ended. In fact, as Short notes, the "latest monthly gain was the second largest of the 170 data points in this series since the turn of the century."

Short

The next chart is my preferred way to show the nominal and real household income—the percent change over time. Essentially I have taken the monthly series for both the nominal and real household incomes and divided them by their respective values at the beginning of 2000. The advantage to this approach is that it clearly quantifies the changes in both series and avoids a common distraction of using dollar amounts ("How does my household stack up?&quot . [...]

The stunning reality illustrated here is that the real median household income series spent most of the first nine years of the 21st century struggling slightly below its purchasing power at the turn of the century. Real incomes (the blue line) hit an interim peak at a fractional 0.7% in early 2008, far below the nominal illusionary peak (as in money illusion) of 27.2% six months later and now at 30.3%, an all-time high. In contrast, the real recovery from the trough has been depressingly slight, although at first blush the latest monthly data, as I mentioned above, is the second largest of the century so far.

Kos

Just one more example of how the guys who wrecked the economy keep taking their toll on the rest of us.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/01/1288929/-Chart-s-of-the-Day-Median-income

Surely you don't think they mean Obama do you?