Learn the four stages of the stock cycle to enhance your investment strategies. Understand accumulation, markup, distribution ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I share insight and perspective on financial advice and true wealth. A boom and bust cycle refers to the alternating periods of ...

The S&P 500 has outperformed the Russell 2000 since March 2021. Small-cap stocks’ tendency to outperform during recessions and early-stage expansions may be related to interest rate sensitivity. Over ...

The global economy is shifting into a new era of growth, driven by the artificial intelligence boom and decarbonization. Four decades ago, the global economy embarked on the current super cycle, when ...

An economic cycle measures an economy's performance over time. It has four notable periods before the cycle renews: expansion, peak, recession, and trough. During the expansion period of an economic ...

The “window of vulnerability on growth is not open,” according to Lakshman Achuthan, co-founder and COO at the Economic Cycle Research Institute, who argues that a cyclical upturn in global inflation ...

Everything about human life has a rhythm. It is literally built into our bodies: Your heart beats in a repeating pattern that keeps you alive. Your breath is another pattern. Repetition is natural for ...

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 ...

The celebrated tome “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, by Thomas Piketty, a French economist, runs to 204,000 words—longer even than Homer’s “Odyssey”. But the book’s central argument can be ...

Keynesian economics is a macroeconomic theory that advocates for active government intervention to manage economic cycles, particularly during recessions and depressions. Developed by British ...