Grin and Bear It

Mysterious are the ways of the stock market. Defying reality, it surges with unemployment figures, drops with good news, and most people pretend this is normal and rational. My favorite fairy story is not the one about the bull market continuing forever. It's about the little boy who pointed out that the emperor was, in fact, starkers rather than togged up in his best Ralph Laurens. I suspect the angry crowd promptly committed him to a child psychiatrist, at the very least. Sergei, a Tass