The S&P 500, as of Wednesday, is now in the longest-running bull market ever, as some strategists measure it. That would be one day older than the 1990-to-2000 bull run, which ended with the bursting of the tech bubble in 2000.

We went at a foot-pace, but on the way back we trotted, and there was something to my mind singularly horrible in the way the driver of the hearse whipped up his horses.

The scientists performed several experiments.

to sweep the bottom of a river with a net