Much effort has been expended trying to develop ways to predict the turning points of business cycles. Few things are widely agreed upon, however. For example, falls in stock prices, profit ...

Economists generally focus on four distinct phases of the economic and business cycle: expansion, peak, contraction and trough. However, the many variables influencing the cycle make it hard to ...

Indeed, these stacato’d business cycles were driven by factors such ... of policy discussions – the Plaza Accord is an early example, as is the ‘Committee to save the world’ that brough ...