Investors compare 2020 to 1999 because it's the easy answer. Humans like easy answers - patterns - because it helps them assert control and make sense of the world. For better or worse, actual answers ...

When you think about it, the year, as applied to culture, is an arbitrary signpost. No film’s principal production is determined solely by the Earth’s course around the sun; no album’s recording is ...

At the end of 1999, there was anxiety about a potential computer glitch known as Y2K. Some thought the world would crumble, including some who waited out the apocalypse in an old house in the woods.