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Until 2020, big economic shocks tended to push inflation lower: China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, the U.S. mortgage crisis, the euro crisis, the shale oil revolution, the initial wave of Covid-19.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Since 1962, the S&P 500 has tended to produce stronger returns after months when the JK Misery Index finished below 35 than after months when it finished above that threshold, according to Kaeppel.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

The researchers discovered that dinosaurs with shorter arms tended to have especially robust skulls.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

The expressions of some players as they trudged around Aronimink indicated they tended to agree.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

On the far edge was an outcropping of rocks, high above a creek, where a man in a top hat tended a fire.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney