The economy's ups and downs are not abstract curves on a chart, they are the backdrop for your job security, mortgage rate, ...

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.

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 ...

Discover leading, coincident, and lagging business cycle indicators to predict economic trends, using insights from the Conference Board.

Discover how coincident indicators reflect current economic conditions, their role in analyzing business cycles, and their impact on understanding economic trends.

The EPB Four Economy Framework helps track the Business Cycle by focusing on sector sequences, with the Leading Economy offering early signals of future shifts. Leading indicators like real money ...

As the U.S. economy shrinks, fears and predictions of a recession continue to grow. New Commerce Department data shows that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annual rate of 0 ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct shipbuilding market share figures. We regret the error. In a recent speech, Trump’s nominee for Treasury ...

Over the course of the next couple of months, I will take an in-depth look at alternative investments and the benefits, pitfalls and the role they play in asset allocations. In the second article of ...

For too long, the wealthy and powerful have used the cycle of economic and political power to enrich themselves and entrench their control. In this piece, Dēmos president Taifa Smith Butler envisions ...

The concept of economic cycles is pivotal in understanding the fluctuations in the economy that impact our daily lives. These cycles consist of four main phases: expansion, peak, recession, and ...