Another thing that ultimately catches up with long-lived governments is the economic cycle.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Better, surely, to plough on with trying to rebalance the economy away from its dependence on a boom-bust consumer-spending cycle and towards investment and exports (however long and arduous that economic reconstruction may turn out to be).

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The wartime cycle usually begins after a long period of commodity price deflation accompanied by an economic depression.

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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.

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