Making its way around social media was the clip from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in which the economist Ben Stein explained the Smoot-Hawley Act, when Republicans raised tariffs in a bid to increase revenue and ended up exacerbating the Great Depression. Wonder if there’s any current relevance.

So it’s probably a good day to travel down memory lane, with the release on Tuesday of UBS’s global investment returns yearbook, which now has 125 years of data to mine.