Nitpick: What's with those charts trying to predict economic quantities such as debt ratios for decades into the future (as the last chart in the article does)?

Nitpick: What's with those charts trying to predict economic quantities such as debt ratios for decades into the future (as the last chart in the article does)? Such predictions are entirely impossible, and their only conceivable purpose is to mislead the reader. There should be some kind of media best practices against that sort of thing. (Speculation about the far future is fine, but then your visualizations have to make it entirely obvious how uncertain the future is, by showing the full range of scenarios and how wildly they always differ.)