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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100385509537
ISBN-139780385509534
eBay Product ID (ePID)5928423
Product Key Features
Book TitleBeating the Business Cycle : How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEconomic History, Economic Conditions, General, Forecasting
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreBusiness & Economics
AuthorLakshman Achuthan, Anirvan Banerji
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-047809
ReviewsAdvance Praise for BEATING THE BUSINESS CYCLE "This easy-to-read book tells you how the respected ECRI calls turning points, and how you can, too." -Jane Bryant Quinn, Newsweek columnist " The Economic Cycle Research Institute can justify a certain smugness now that business cycles are back in fashion." --Harvard Business Review "Shows... how far the state of the art in cycle forecasting has advanced, and how investors can profit from it." -Jon Markman, award-winning CNBC/MSN financial columnist "Read this jewel of a book and enter your own personal cyclical upswing." -James Grant, editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer Acclaim for the Economic Cycle Research Institute "The dismal scientists have a dismal record in predicting recessions… The Economic Cycle Research Institute... has been more successful." -The Economist
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal338.5/42
SynopsisWhile so many have failed at predicting recessions and recoveries in the economy in the past, what makes the predictions of the ECRI so different in their uncanny accuracy. Among many other turns in the economy, the institute successfully predicted the U.S. recession of 2001 six months before the economists did; the U.S. recession of 1991 five months in advance, and most recently, the weak U.S. recovery in 2002. In constant demand in the media, the ECRI has been called the secret weapono of companies both large and small, from the major fund managers and the central banks to Alan Greenspan himself. CYCLES OF CERTAINTY is the first book to reveal how managers, small business owners, and individuals can peer into the economy's future in making key decisions. By knowing whether the economy will contract or expand, a large company can better know whether to search out new clients and build new factories if the economy is growing, or consider cost cutting and layoffs in a looming recession. But CYCLES OF CERTAINTY isn't aimed just at Fortune 500 managers. The advice it offers applies just as strongly to small businesses and individuals, as well. Should the owners of a small laundromat open a second shop or sit tight? Is now a good time to consider changing careers, or going back to school? What about that new house you were considering is it the right time to buy, or should you hold off? Written in an easy-to-understand, accessible style, CYCLES OF CERTAINTY shows how anyone can adopt a business-cycleo mind-set, providing readers with the specific advice they need to check the key leading indicators, and apply that to their business, job, or major life decision., While so many have failed at predicting recessions and recoveries in the economy in the past, what makes the predictions of the ECRI so different in their uncanny accuracy. Beating the Business Cycle is the first book to reveal how managers, small business owners, and individuals can peer into the economy's future in making key decisions.