For the parachute pants aficianados, the 1980's used the term poison pill to thwart certain strategies. The linear explains a lot of "fun the mentals/fundamentals" in place in 2022.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poisonpill.asp

Layoffs, housing price decreases, used car decreases, crypto crashes, balloning interest rates.

It looks like the updated strategy is "get them high enough to where the fall kills them" :)

It does sound like a macroeconomic saying if you look at several linears for each :p