For now, I am optimistic that a virtuous cycle of expansion has a chance to work for the intermediate term.

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It would be great if the word (economic) cycle only existed in a singular form, and the only cycle we had in the economy was happy expansion.

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"EA's challenges could not have come at a worse time, as the middle innings of a game cycle should be the glory days of operating margin expansion and significant cash generation, " Piper Jaffray analyst Anthony N.

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It will be innovation more broadly, and new technologies across all sectors of our economy, that will create long-term expansion for the economy and a new great cycle of job growth.(See The Next Great Growth Cycle.) Manufacturing is coming back, and is being revitalized by advancing technology from the full infusion of information technology to the seeming magic of emerging 3D printing.

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If Las Vegas and Atlantic City recover in the U.S., then a new replacement cycle (including the Indian casinos) should boost domestic revenues while new casinos and expansion in Macau and Asia boosts overseas sales.

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If companies have large piles of cash, they can pay their workers more, invest in capital equipment and expansion, or at the very least weather any more ups and downs in the business cycle.

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