Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 20, No. 3, Part 2: Recent Developments in Macroeconomics (Aug., 1988), pp. 459-471 (13 pages) ...

The business cycle is an economics concept used to describe fluctuations in economic activity over an extended period of time. The business cycle affect the entire economy on a macro level and ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. When times are tough, we start to question ourselves: why? Why do we deserve it? How long will it last? Will this ...

Austrian economics provides valuable insights for business planning, but not so much in business cycle analysis. It’s not that key insights from the Austrian school of economics are wrong, but that ...

In “The Key to the Long Expansion? Logistics” (Inside View, July 8), Andy Kessler writes that the “animal spirits” of the business cycle have been tamed by improved logistics. This is a bold position ...

Business cycles fluctuate through four stages: recession, recovery, growth and decline. They occur randomly and at times unexpectedly with varying duration. Some have lasted as short as two years and ...

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 ...