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 ...

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.

The Economics Department offers two undergraduate degrees, one through the College of Arts & Sciences, and the other through the Leavey School of Business. Students have the option to choose a ...

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 ...

In the 1950s, economist Kenneth Boulding simplified the five-stage business life cycle initially developed by economist Alfred Marshall into four phases: birth, growth, decay and death.

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 ...

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.

The way this business cycle likely ends was finally visible in the corporate earnings reports released in the last few days. It’s not about a downturn in growth due to waning consumer demand ...