2/09Number of times in 2008 that the S&P 500 closed up or down 5 percent in a single day: 17

The Vanguard Group (Malvern, Pa.)

    Number of times between 1956 and 2007 it did this: 17

The Vanguard Group (Malvern, Pa.)

4/00Total return on a dollar invested in the “socially responsible” Domini 400 Social Index in 1990: $5.75

Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing With Your Values, Bloomberg Press (Princeton, N.J.)

    Total return on a dollar invested in the S&P 500: $4.63

Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, and Cliff Feigenbaum, Investing With Your Values, Bloomberg Press (Princeton, N.J.)

3/05Amount to which a San Diego defense analyst’s payments to Social Security had appreciated when he retired in 1994: $261,372

Stanley Logue (San Diego)

    Amount to which he calculated they would have grown if he had invested in a Dow Jones index fund instead: $248,166

Stanley Logue (San Diego)

2/05Percentage change since March 2002 in total U.S. corporate profits, as valued in dollars: +39

Silvercrest Asset Management Group (N.Y.C.)

    Percentage change as valued in euros: -8

Silvercrest Asset Management Group (N.Y.C.)/Harper’s research

12/89Amount by which cash deposits exceeded cash withdrawals at banks in Miami in 1988: $4,488,124,000

Federal Reserve Board (Washington, D.C.)