Economic cycles are normal ebbs and flows in the economy that happen in a repeating pattern. Read more about them inside.

Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market ...

What are economic cycles? Why is it important to understand economic cycles? What are the main causes of economic cycles? What are the key indicators of economic cycles? How can you predict a ...

While the NBER collects economic data ostensibly to aid policymakers, the data it acquires is useless without proper economic ...

Similar to an amusement park roller coaster, economic trends have ups and downs. When the economy is flourishing, productivity is up and unemployment is down. But when the economy takes a dip, ...

Understanding the economy requires recognizing the predictable sequence of the Business Cycle, which is critical for long-term investment strategies. The EPB Four Economy Framework segments the ...

We have shown that business cycles of say five to ten years appear naturally due to an instability. Though it is the right ...

Thomas Kevin Swift has packed insights gathered over a long career in industrial economics into A History of American Business Cycles, a book released earlier this year. The book tackles large volumes ...

We use multivariate unobserved components models to estimate trend and cyclical components in gross domestic product (GDP), credit volumes, and house prices for the USA and the five largest European ...

We are in the downward portion of the global business cycle. Economic growth likely peaked in major economies last year and the slowdown has been pronounced especially in Europe but also in China and ...

The US economy remains resilient. We are beginning to see signs of life in the manufacturing sector, with recent weakness is primarily a result of the most lagging economic data in the form of income ...