Expansion, Overheating, and Landing Cycles
Expansion and overheating terms used when markets assess whether policy tightening may produce a soft or hard landing.
Recovery-shape, landing, and overheating terms used when market narratives turn on the economic cycle path.
Recovery, Landing, and Cycle Shapes covers business-cycle phases, recessions, recoveries, labor-market releases, production data, confidence measures, forecasting terms, and cycle indicators used in market analysis.
Use these pages when economic data or cycle labels affect revenue assumptions, credit quality, rate expectations, portfolio positioning, or business-planning scenarios. It sits inside Cycle Phases, Recessions, and Recoveries, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
This landing page points readers toward Expansion, Overheating, and Landing Cycles, and Recovery Shapes and Jobless Recoveries. Choose the narrower page when the term changes the evidence source, calculation, institution, market convention, risk exposure, or decision being made.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Expansion, Overheating, and Landing Cycles | Expansion and overheating terms used when markets assess whether policy tightening may produce a soft or hard landing. |
| Recovery Shapes and Jobless Recoveries | Recovery patterns used to describe how output, labor markets, and financial conditions improve after downturns. |
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Expansion and overheating terms used when markets assess whether policy tightening may produce a soft or hard landing.
Recovery patterns used to describe how output, labor markets, and financial conditions improve after downturns.