With stock market charts resembling the contours of a roller-coaster ride in recent days, many Americans could be forgiven ...

Kaplan’s data includes monthly US stock market returns going back to January 1886 and annual returns over the period from 1871-1885. In the chart below, each bear-market episode is indicated ...

This chart from Credit Suisse offers a timeline of the key market, regulatory, and technological events in the U.S. stock market. (h/t JC Parets at All Start Charts) ...