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Comment by koolba

4 days ago

These raw numbers are meaningless to compare. If anything it should show margin debt as a fraction of total assets (or total market size as a proxy).

The other thing is that whenever I see graphs like that spanning decades but not using a logarithmic scale, I can't help but roll my eyes a bit.

We may well be approaching a dotcom moment, but this kind of graph automatically exaggerates what's happening more recently.