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 ...

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Discover how Keynesian economics can stabilize economies by mitigating boom-bust cycles, as pioneered by John Maynard Keynes in transforming economic theory.

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Although the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have been seemingly unstoppable for more than two years, their phenomenal rally may soon be over. A time-tested forecasting ...

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 ...

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 ...

With few exceptions, the U.S. economy has been steadily growing for 16 years. An intriguing correlation exists between U.S. recessions and the political party in power -- and it's potentially ...

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

Canada's forex market operates within a framework dominated by commodity price relationships and close economic ties with the United States. The Canadian dollar's behavior reflects the country's ...

In our opinion, it’s not the case that the US economy has avoided a recession, but rather that the current cycle has been elongated. We use the commodity/gold ratio (the Spot Commodity Index (GNX) ...