I was mostly thinking about the "it illustrates how impactful the '08 crash was" in the original comment. Of course it looks like a huge change if you restrict

I was mostly thinking about the "it illustrates how impactful the '08 crash was" in the original comment. Of course it looks like a huge change if you restrict the Y-axis, but if you plot it on the full axis you realize that it was actually still relatively small. It did of course affect millions of Americans and might have been the biggest decrease in a long time, but it was nowhere near the 80% drop that it looked like in the original plot.