The Business Cycle Boom, Bust, Recovery

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Real U.S. moments get sorted into four phases, a 2020 high point that closed a 128-month run of growth, then the shortest recession on record at just 2 months, before three named variables get placed along the cycle, one rising with growth, one moving against it, one barely tracking it.

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