The decade-long economic expansion, poised to become the longest in U.S. history next month, is facing an existential question: Will it sputter to a halt by next year or keep on chugging at the ...

Federal Reserve Bank researchers looked at the relationship between economic expansions and the severity of subsequent recessions.

In expansions it was -1.03 percent, and in recessions it was -0.43 percent. There's little evidence of persistence of performance across business cycles.

What is the optimal mix of recessions and expansions? This is a hard, perhaps impossible, question to answer, but economists ought to be trying and aren’t.

Financial markets—specifically derivatives—contain information about the range of probable future short-term interest rates.

Small-cap stocks’ tendency to outperform during recessions and early-stage expansions may be related to interest rate sensitivity. Click to read.

The alternating phases of the business cycle are expansions and contractions. Contractions often lead to recessions but the entire phase isn't always a recession.

The NBER oversees the business cycle chronology in the United States, determining the start and end dates for recessions and expansions.

What Are Recessions and How Long Do They Last? How to define a recession and how to prepare your finances and portfolio for a downturn.

And the last expansion, which is the term economists use to describe the time when the economy is growing in between recessions, lasted from 2008 to 2020 -- which was the longest expansion on record.

The chart below compares the downturns, recoveries, and expansions with recessions, the latter based on National Bureau of Economic Research data.

A group of economists who work with a think tank called the National Bureau of Economic Research form the official group that decides when recessions and expansions start and end,” he said.