How to Use business cycle in a Sentence

business cycle

noun
  • To bulls, that’s a testament to the health of the business cycle.
    Sid Verma, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • In March of 2000, the business cycle and earnings had peaked.
    Nancy Tengler, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021
  • There is a lot more going on than just the business cycle here.
    Douglas Carr, National Review, 22 Apr. 2021
  • This metric could be the key to winning the next business cycle.
    Christopher Bergh, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the time, those words are used to tell the reader that the economic process has changed from the last business cycle.
    Robert Barone, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The business cycle has been getting longer for some time.
    The Economist, 2 July 2019
  • This county tends then to be the most cyclical county in the country in terms of the business cycle.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The crash of 2008 and the Great Recession are far behind us, and most countries are at the peak of their business cycles.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2018
  • The more critical debate, in my view, is how long the business cycle has to run.
    Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • But yeah, there have always been ups and downs, business cycles.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • People get sick no matter where the country is in the business cycle.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Depending on its stage in the business cycle, such a small brand may not yet be profitable.
    Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • There’s nothing says the business cycle has to be only focused on short term-ism.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 30 May 2018
  • These two trends had been reversed throughout much of the current business cycle.
    Sharon Nunn, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
  • There is the business cycle and the inflationary cycle, the rhythms of housing booms and credit busts.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • Inflation is coming in the next two years, then will be followed by a boom/bust business cycle, or maybe two.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The main drivers of growth in the most recent business cycle were crude oil prices and the stock market, both of which saw a recovery after the winter months.
    Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 4 June 2019
  • Presidents are often at the mercy of the business cycle.
    Jason Furman, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
  • That fact is traceable largely to the defense parts of the company, which do not follow the rhythms of the commercial business cycle.
    Loren Thompson, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Another gauge of the business cycle signals more good news.
    Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In fact, it has been argued that the housing cycle is important enough to drive the overall business cycle.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Bond bulls have a spring in their step thanks to softer economic data and signals the business cycle is close to peaking.
    Sid Verma, Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Life does not have its own lane running parallel to your business cycle.
    Sara Phelan, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • The White House may also be betting that business cycles in the two countries put the U.S. in a stronger bargaining position.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 16 June 2018
  • And the maturity of the business cycle cuts both ways (see article).
    The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Throughout the business cycle, labor force attachment tends to be far more volatile for people with MDD.
    Paul E. Greenberg, Scientific American, 5 May 2021
  • Overall, that whole ebb and flow in this business cycle has created some challenges.
    Paul Gattis, AL.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • In truth, presidents simply don’t have much impact on the business cycle.
    Scott Sumner, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Something that has been unique to this business cycle is the amount of fiscal policy that is in play — that has kept household balance sheets and business sector balance sheets intact.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In reality, there's a limit to what the White House can do to change things quickly, with the economy's performance tied to broad global and domestic business cycles beyond the president's control.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024

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