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To: forceOfHabit who wrote (91477)	2/11/2008 2:47:41 PM
From: bart13	Respond to of 110194

Not a problem at all foh. You made me look to see what it is (sometimes I do blow it)... and its simply a "gotcha" from the left hand scale being linear as opposed to log. Small changes don't show up well on linear charts, and it really should be log... but Excel is brain dead on log scales (they're fixed). I was lucky with this one though since the data fit into Excel's fixed ideas about log scales (if the debt was slightly over $10 trillion, Excel jumps to $100 trillion). I prefer linear and also usually add in a yearly rate of change to help clarify what's really going on.