The business cycle refers to the cyclical fluctuations in economic activity that an economy goes through over time. A boom (or expansionary phase) and a recession (or contractionary phase) are two ...

The “business cycle” might just be one of the oldest ideas in economics. For more than 200 years, economists have been pointing to the tendency of economies to expand, then slow down, contract ...

The EPB Four Economy Framework helps track the Business Cycle by focusing on sector sequences, with the Leading Economy offering early signals of future shifts. Read the first step here.

There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate.

3. Contraction. After the peak, a decline follows. When an economy is in the contraction stage of the economic cycle, growth slows. A period of contraction in economic activity, if severe enough ...

Encouraged by the Federal Reserve’s policy of financial repression (suppressing interest rates) since the Great Financial Crisis, the central bank’s measure of the nonfinancial business debt ...

Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in ...

Then came a vicious cycle in which soaring inflation fuelled expectations of future price rises, which then became self-fulfilling. But the experience of the 1970s was far from typical, suggests ...

You’ve heard about the market cycle, but what is it? Discover the definition, how it works, its main phases, implications, and more.