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 and ...

Every city, organization and business has something in common: a defined life cycle. Take New Orleans, for example. US Route 90—a segment of the Ponchartrain expressway—cuts through the heart of New ...

Milton Friedman and the Monetarists believed that fluctuations in the money supply caused the boom-and-bust business cycles.

The US manufacturing PMI has entered expansion mode for two months in a row, setting the stage for a positive reversal in the business cycle. The first six weeks of US President Donald Trump’s second ...