As you can see, here's a wavy blue line that might mean something

As you can see with the easy assistance of the OMB's historical tables, we're in the midst of a pretty giant stimulus-driven runup in federal spending:

When I took microeconomics in college, at least one entire lecture was spent explaining to the class what graphs were, how to read them, and how to make them. At the time, I wondered who would ever make it to a college class without knowing how to make a proper, readable graph. Now I know.

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