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But advances in data visualization, faster development
cycles
for applications, and the steady consumerization of technology are changing that, putting customized, easy-to-understand solutions in managers’ hands.
And a major reason is that it is still vulnerable to asymmetric boom-and-bust
cycles.
Business
cycles
naturally entail peaks and troughs in employment, and socially responsible businesses should follow successful examples like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, Saudi Aramco, Africa Rainbow Minerals, and Google in working toward mitigating joblessness and enhancing people’s abilities to earn a livelihood.
Unlocking the world’s latent talent, and thus its full capacity for growth, requires us to look beyond business
cycles
and quarterly reports.
The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter attributed the boom-and-bust
cycles
of the 19th century to periodic bursts of "creative destruction" followed by lulls in innovative activity.
A second answer – that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral
cycles
– may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re-election.
In a 2009 study, scientists concluded that, by crossing any of nine “planetary boundaries” – climate change, biodiversity loss, disruption of nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, land use, freshwater extraction, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, atmospheric aerosol loading, and chemical pollution – humans would increase the risk of fundamentally changing the Earth system.
For example, producing and delivering nutritious food consistently to upwards of nine billion people by mid-century has implications for water and energy consumption, agricultural development and land use, the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, and ocean acidification, not to mention biodiversity loss, such as through overfishing.
Some econometric attempts have been made to identify long-term
cycles
in both inflation and monetary growth.
Moreover, this system subjects the world economy to
cycles
of confidence in the US dollar, while placing the world economy at the mercy of a national authority – one that often makes decisions with scant regard for their international implications.
Recriminations after financial crises have a long history, and they recur in regular
cycles.
As a result, business
cycles
and monetary policy are less synchronized than in any previous global expansion.
So, even if US investment conditions become less favorable, Europe, Japan, and many emerging markets are now entering the sweet spot of their investment cycles: profits are rising strongly, but interest rates remain very low.
This unique feature of GCC labor markets enhances the region’s ability to adapt and adjust to fluctuating economic
cycles.
An unprecedentedly weak economic recovery – roughly 2% annual growth over the past nine-plus years, versus a 4% norm in earlier
cycles
– says otherwise.
Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, has repeatedly said that the impending sequence of rate hikes will be much slower than previous monetary cycles, and predicts that it will end at a lower peak level.
For currency traders, therefore, the last two
cycles
of Fed tightening turned out to be classic examples of “buy on the rumor; sell on the news.”
In fact, female and male sexual response differs in important ways: the length of response cycles, the role of “bad stress,” and the complexity of pelvic neural wiring (which in men is fairly standard, but in women is highly variegated and individualized).
The business
cycles
of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush share strong similarities and are different from pre-1980
cycles.
It is worth remembering that in the Fed’s previous two tightening cycles, the equilibrium rate was 6.5% and 5.25%, respectively.
As the last few monetary-policy
cycles
have shown, even if the Fed can get the equilibrium rate back to 3% before the next recession hits, it still will not have enough room to maneuver effectively.
Cycles
of economic fashion are as old as business cycles, and are usually caused by deep business disturbances.
“Liberal”
cycles
are followed by “conservative” cycles, which give way to new “liberal” cycles, and so on.
Liberal
cycles
are characterized by government intervention and conservative
cycles
by government retreat.
Liberal cycles, the historian Arthur Schlesinger thought, succumb to the corruption of power, conservative
cycles
to the corruption of money.
The
cycles
in economic fashion show how far economics is from being a science.
Some countries, especially in the Balkans and the Commonwealth of Independent States, are far from completing the transition and have gone through repeated
cycles
of hope and crisis.
Since 1970, Germany’s business
cycles
have been surprisingly regular: a downswing in the first half of each decade, followed by an upswing in the second half.
All of this suggests that a substantial share of the decline in productivity growth may not be the result of some deep problem with resource allocation or some consequence of exogenous technological innovation
cycles
over which we have little control.
In this sense, the heart of the university is located in its curriculum committee, as the mechanism by which research is regularly translated into teaching, generating new
cycles
of creative destruction.
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