A Business Cycle (or Economic Cycle) is the economy-wide fluctuations in production, trade, and general economic activities in businesses. The Business Cycle is recurrent sequences of alternating phases of expansion and contraction in the level of a time series. These fluctuations typically repeated between periods of relatively rapid economic growth and periods of relative stagnation or decline: Expansion/ Booming/ Contraction/ Recession/ Recovery cycles.
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