William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, ...

Lakshman Achuthan is the co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute ... three decades of experience as a business executive. He is a professor of economics and has raised more than ...

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 ...

Economists generally focus on four distinct phases of the economic and business cycle: expansion, peak, contraction and trough. However, the many variables influencing the cycle make it hard to ...

Understanding the market cycle can help investors make more informed investment decisions for the long run. Stock market prices ties closely to the ebb and flow of the underlying business and ...

According to Keynesian economics, state intervention is necessary to moderate the booms and busts in economic activity, otherwise known as the business cycle. There are three principal tenets in the ...

While it is notoriously hard to predict a recession, there are definitive criteria that must be met in order for a business cycle to be considered ... economist at Oxford Economics, told CBS ...