Getting Longer The National Bureau of Economic Research measures the current economic expansion at 111 months and counting. The current period is the second-longest expansion of NBER's 160-year ...

To our surprise, the US economy has not entered a recession over the past two years. This is not because a recession has been avoided altogether but because the current economic cycle has been ...

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 ...

Critics of the Austrian Business Cycle Theory claim that capital investors over time will no longer be fooled by artificially-low interest rates triggered by ...

Ken Ferrie advises farmers to navigate agriculture’s cyclical economic waves by managing costs and seizing opportunities during downturns to position themselves for future profitability. If your ...

In the past five years, India has seen distinct business cycles — a -5.8 per cent GDP contraction in FY21, a strong 9.2 per cent rebound in FY22–FY23, and a moderation to about 6.5 per cent in FY25.

Business cycles are the "ups and downs" in economic activity, defined in terms of periods of expansion or recession. During expansions, the economy, measured by indicators like jobs, production, and ...

In our opinion, it’s not the case that the US economy has avoided a recession, but rather that the current cycle has been elongated. We use the commodity/gold ratio (the Spot Commodity Index (GNX) ...