For a Short Month, February Was Long on Deal Volume

For a Short Month, February Was Long on Deal Volume

by | Mar 9, 2018 12:19 pm | Healthcare Market Updates

Ever wonder why February is the shortest month of the year? It didn’t even exist on the old Roman calendar, when there were only 10 months in a year. Later, the calendar was revised to include 12 lunar cycles totaling 355 days and January and February were added, with February as the last month of the year. In Julius Caesar’s day, the calendar was changed yet again to align with the solar cycle, which amounted to 365 days. And because a complete revolution of the Earth around the sun is actually 365-and-one-quarter days, an extra day is tacked onto the end of every fourth year, which we call a Leap Year. You remembered that from third grade, of course. All that brings us to why comparing... Read More »