The problem with this kind of analysis is you have to bake in a bunch of assumptions. For example the Reddit link in the sister comment assumes that the x-axis

The problem with this kind of analysis is you have to bake in a bunch of assumptions. For example the Reddit link in the sister comment assumes that the x-axis scale stays the same and arbitrarily chooses a starting date and y-axis scaling to make the lines fit. This pre-supposed all kinds of things about where we are in this boom-bust cycle that may not be true.