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.

In business and life, change is the only constant we can depend on. To move your business forward in each phase of the economic cycle, you must embrace this philosophy.

For data science teams to succeed, business leaders need to understand the importance of MLops, modelops, and the machine learning life cycle. Try these analogies and examples to cut through the ...

What Are the Four Stages of the Economic Cycle? In general, economists tend to divide the economic cycle into four basic stages—expansion, peak, contraction, and trough.

For example, a 10 percentage point increase in the business credit-to-GDP ratio in the expansion—a considerable rate of growth by historical standards—was not associated with a slower recovery.