> it's hard for me not correlate the first derivative of the slope of that graph Many years ago I recall seeing a chart that annotated-out the party had the Pr

> it's hard for me not correlate the first derivative of the slope of that graph Many years ago I recall seeing a chart that annotated-out the party had the Presidency or majorities in either house of Congress along the "time" axis, but I'm not having any luck finding one. Sort of like this [0] except including a line for deficit/surplus by GDP. [1] There are a lot of charts out there where the Presidency is shown, but IMO that plays in to a false narrative about who really has power over budgeting and how-much. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/02/03/single-party-control-in-washington-is-common-at-the-beginning-of-a-new-presidency-but-tends-not-to-last-long/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/02/03/single-pa... [1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S