The economy's ups and downs are not abstract curves on a chart, they are the backdrop for your job security, mortgage rate, investment returns and even how long your emergency fund lasts. When I talk ...

People still buy groceries and fill their gas tanks. Businesses still need to accept payments, pay employees, move funds and ...

Making sense of the economy requires more than just tracking the latest data—it demands a framework for connecting the dots. The good news is that the economy doesn’t move in random spurts—it follows ...

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 ...

Business cycles involve periodic fluctuations of economic activity, such as production and employment. The typical cycle involves a rise in activity that reaches a high point, or peak, followed by a ...

Economic cycles feature expansion, peak, contraction, and trough stages. Investors adjust strategies based on the current economic phase. Government tools like interest rates help manage these cycles.

Steve Swinney is CEO of Kodiak Building Partners, a leader in the building materials industry that manages locally led companies. Recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve are a welcome sign ...

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 ...

There is a growing view that the U.S. business cycle has changed (for better) in a more diversified economy. To some, that sounds like tempting fate. By Talmon Joseph Smith For much of modern history, ...

The banking industry performed exceptionally well during the strong economic expansion of the past five years. Strong demand for loans and banking services and the strong supply of quality customers ...

A recession is a decline in economic activity lasting over a few months. A depression is a more severe recession, but there has only been one major economic depression in the US. Consequences of ...

The concept of economic cycles is pivotal in understanding the fluctuations in the economy that impact our daily lives. These ...