This "flying up impossibly at the last minute" is a feature of graphs of national debt (http://images.google.com/images?q=national+debt http://images.google.com

This "flying up impossibly at the last minute" is a feature of graphs of national debt (http://images.google.com/images?q=national+debt http://images.google.com/images?q=national+debt), but it's also a feature of graphs of US furniture sales. I'm not saying the US dollar is fine. I'm just tired of people using this kind of graph to try to make a point.