published Oct 16, 2018 3:30:09 PM, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg Opinion) — Back to normal. That’s what it must seem like after the S&P 500 Index surged 2.15 percent Tuesday in its biggest gain since March. The benchmark is now up 2.99 percent since closing on Thursday at its lowest

In the Dune series of science fiction novels there are these massive ships called Guild Heighliners.  They are gigantic cigar-shaped vessels that move at greater than the speed of light because the Guild Navigators have learned how to “fold” space.  The novels are Sci-fi masterpieces and go into wonderful detail.