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- The business cycle: expansions, peaks, recessions and troughs What the business cycle is, its four phases, how long US expansions and recessions have lasted since 1945, what tends to end them, and how unemployment tracks the cycle.
- What is a recession? How the NBER dates US recessions How the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee decides when US recessions start and end, why “two negative quarters” is not the rule, and what 2001 and 2022 show.
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