September May Be a Difficult Month for Stocks

Beginning at least four summers ago, this column suggested that "investors probably shouldn't wish for the circumstances under which the Fed would start easing" (Streetwise, Aug. 6, 2007). The intervening years have provided material for scores of books and stacks of doctoral theses, and at least one pretty good made-for-cable movie (Too Big To Fail), about the post-housing-bubble financial crisis.