The economic cycle looks to have peaked, and recovery looks to be slowing down.
All other operating properties acquired over decades go in different directions depending on the economic cycle.
As companies prepare for the upside of the economic cycle, they're bringing on new CEOs.
These policies exacerbate the economic cycle, and contribute to the paradox of the resource curse.
Cyclicals, such as automotive or energy stocks, tend to display growth later in the economic cycle.
The difference will become even clearer when commodity prices fall and the economic cycle turns.
Countries will have to sign up to balanced budgets over the course of the economic cycle.
This is a dangerous tax rise at exactly the wrong time in the economic cycle.
The reason is that the political timetable rarely matches the state of the economic cycle.
But, here as elsewhere, it is hard to distinguish millennial nerves from the economic cycle.
Credit relative to GDP, then, does not grow in a straight line, thanks to the economic cycle.
So Mr Brown can be more confident that the budget will roughly balance over the economic cycle.
Advertising veers up and down with the economic cycle, and can be skipped by using digital video recorders.
Another thing that ultimately catches up with long-lived governments is the economic cycle.
But this phenomenon is difficult to prove since the extent of crowding out will vary with the economic cycle.
My work suggests margins are above trend relative to normalized profits for where we are in the economic cycle.
After several lean years, the economic cycle has swung back in Germany's favour.
Government budgets in Sweden and Finland are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle.
Furthermore, commodity prices are rising at an early stage in the economic cycle.
The major problem with this strategy is that the economy usually does not follow the economic cycle as exactly defined.
Rather, it seems that something other than the state of the economic cycle is to blame for the industry's woes.
Pearson and Vivendi, for instance, have each pushed hard into educational publishing, a business far less vulnerable to the economic cycle.
The sectors will cycle together, and then sectors within an industry will cycle, and then the business cycle and the economic cycle.
They set a goal of 10% profit growth through the economic cycle.
Were the economic cycle still dominating sterling's value in the currency markets, thinks Mr Breedon, it would have fallen further by now.
Furthermore, any limit on deficits should take into account the economic cycle.
The SGP was claimed to be inflexible as it should be applied over the economic cycle and not just one year at a time.
But after any long economic boom there is always the danger that people get carried away, believing erroneously that the economic cycle has been banished.
Those earlier studies suggest that mergers dreamt up late in the economic cycle and at the top of a bull market tend to fare particularly badly.
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