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The Business Cycle Boom, Bust, Recovery

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Analyst work for Dr. Lena Park has students sort late-2010s growth, the pandemic-era peak, and the shortest U.S. recession on record into cycle phases, then compare the record 128-month expansion to shorter averages before a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta memo.

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