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“Economic expansions don’t die of old age; they are murdered” usually by domestic or geopolitical exogenous shocks

 – by New Deal democrat There is an old saying that “economic expansions don’t die of old age. They are murdered.”  I have been writing about the economy, and examining all sorts of leading, coincident, and lagging indicators, for 20 years; and the longer time goes on, the truer that saying appears. My most recent examination […]