The current monetary inflation that is the Bernanke boom-bust-to-be is already multiples larger than the monetary inflation that produced the tech bust and, at this point in the boom-bust cycle, even larger than the inflationary surge that gave us the housing bust turn Great Recession.
However, based solely on the Four Year Presidential Cycle it does look like 2011 should be a low-risk year, even though the first two years of the cycle were already quite positive.
The price-tag looks even heftier when the limited versatility and survivability of unmanned aircraft are factored into the life-cycle cost equation.
Indeed, the phone industry has been characterized by fast-moving product cycles, where even one missed cycle can result in a slide.
The finding demonstrates that people have a day-night cycle that must be respected, even when they're doing the demanding work of space exploration.
The SPX defied the odds and closed higher for the week, even though the first leg of a five-week expiration cycle has an historical tendency for stocks to trade lower.
Not even oil, the archetypal industrial commodity, quite conforms to the super-cycle theory.
Traders suggest that the Fed's indication that it may be nearing the end of its cycle of interest-rate increases will probably make the volatility and trading volume jump even more.
In 2003, as then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cut interest rates to an unprecedented 1%, Mr. Connolly described the U.S. economy as a debt-driven Ponzi scheme and predicted that interest rates would have to fall even further in the next cycle to keep the scheme going.
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Even though the orbital cycle that produced the cooling continued, it was overwhelmed in the 20th century by human-induced warming.
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