There are some important caveats to the chart and the 10-year life cycle theory in general.
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Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.
Although the Super Bowl indicator may be a statistical oddity, the presidential election cycle theory appears to have some basis to it.
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Rather than explaining the cycle in terms of market failure, as Keynes did, real business-cycle theory views a recession as the optimal response by households and firms to a shift in productivity.
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And their theory of the business cycle has won few mainstream converts.
The Austrian theory of the trade cycle explains why loans are systematically granted to people who will almost certainly not be successful restaurant owners.
The cycle of abuse is a social theory developed by Lenore Walker, who taught at the Rutgers Medical School, to describe an often-predictable pattern in an abusive relationship.
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Until, that is, management gurus and investment bankers cook up a new theory to justify conglomerates, and the cycle of integration and disintegration starts all over again.
Before his writings on the carbon cycle, Mr Bethe produced several papers that endeavoured to pull together the whole theory of nuclear physics.
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Without boring you in academia, one of the assumptions in the theory suggests that companies and asset classes have a natural, repeating cycle in which good performance begets bad performance and vice-versa.
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His theory asserts that private sector decisions sometimes lead to unexpected downturns in the economic cycle and, therefore, the public sector, including monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal spending by the government are needed to stabilize output.
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