Meaning of downcycle | Babel Free

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A period of a cycle where something is decreasing or deteriorating.

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“Because commodity industries, including energy, are driven by costs, a pricing down-cycle brings major cost⟳ cutting efforts, often involving restructurings and consolidations to increase⟳ economies of scale.”

“It is precisely these logical anomalies, paradoxes and problems, which create⟳ Samsara's wheel of eternal repeating up-cycles which is followed by eternal repeating down-cycles and vice versa (for example life and death, success and fiasco, joy and sorrow) – as well as the ignorance and suffering when you are caught into this wheel, for example in the experience⟳ of nightmare and anxiety.”

“[M]ost experts agree⟳ that a downcycle is in progress⟳ and are expecting demand⟳ from emerging countries and regions such as India, South-East Asia and even Africa, to eventually rebound to the point⟳ where it once again outstrips supply⟳.”

“Again, the current down cycle is anomalous, with the Fed's monetary policies encouraging unusually high levels of stock⟳ buybacks and fruitless mergers.”

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