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		toyg on Oct 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Entrepreneurs: The End Is Near. Refinance. You're fishing for a discussion that will never end :) Let's flip it the other way: which economic elements or actors DON'T go through cycles, in your opinion ? I'm genuinely curious.

rudiger on Oct 5, 2011 | [–]

Well, debt doesn't seem to be in a cycle. It just keeps getting bigger! :D

iand on Oct 5, 2011 | | [–]

Maybe it's just a long cycle.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:US_Feder...

Symmetry on Oct 5, 2011 | | [–]

Sometimes it goes up and sometimes it goes down, but the academic consensus is that its a random walk, rather than any sort of predictable cycle.

trotsky on Oct 5, 2011 | [–]

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