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The Economics of Growth
The economic cycle also known as the business cycle provides much of the foundation for cyclical events in the business world and the markets. Marx recognizes that he's seen his story play out before and knows to be more defensive when people have become too euphoric. When thinking about economic growth, we mainly want to consider what are the long term secular trends rather than the oscillations around those trends. In January of 2009, Howard wrote a memo titled The Long View where he outlined that security markets have risen over the previous decades due to a number of factors including the macro environment,. corporate growth, the borrowing mentality of consumers, the popularization of investing as well as investor psychology.