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To define interest-rate cycles we used the federal-funds rate and defined a cycle as any one where interest rates were going in a particular direction over a six-month period.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

People like index funds in general, but they have a particular taste for S&P 500 funds, which are hundreds of billions of dollars ahead of any other funds.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

Place can dictate the feel of a particular action.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

"We're not focused on a particular narrow slice of this moment or of history," Michael Strautmanis, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of the Obama Foundation, told AFP.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

The teams will not rest this first night—they are too excited and must be allowed to run until they settle in—so the darkness brings a particular insanity of passing teams and tangles and moose.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen