The Leading Economic Indicators and Business Cycles in the United States: 100 Years of Empirical Evidence and the Opportunities for the Future

Chapter 1. Economic Growth and Business Cycles in the United States -- Chapter 2. Mr. Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Advent of U.S. and NBER Business Cycle Research -- Chapter 3. Measuring Business Activity, An Introductions to the Contributions of Mr. Persons, Mr. Schumpeter, Mr. Haberler, and Mr. Eckstein -- Chapter 4. Mr. Burns and Mr. Mitchell on Measuring Business Cycles -- Chapter 5. Mr. Geoffrey Moore and NBER Business Cycle Research -- Chapter 6. Mr. Victor Zarnowitz and Economic Forecasting, and NBER Business Cycle Research -- Chapter 7. Regression and Time Series Modeling of Real GDP, the Unemployment Rate, and the Impact of Leading Economic Indicators on Forecasting Accuracy -- Chapter 8. Granger-Causality Testing and LEI Forecasting of Quarterly Mergers and the Unemployment Rate -- Chapter 9. Active Management in Portfolio Selection and Management within Business Cycles and Present-Day COVID -- Chapter 10. Testing and Forecasting the Unemployment Rate with the Most Current Data, TCB LEI, data as of 11/05/2021 -- Chapter 11. Conclusions and Summary.