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Another “boom cycle” chart

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This chart’s been making the rounds on LinkedIn recently — it’s the Benner Cycle, an observation and prediction made by farmer Samuel Benner, who noticed that markets follow a regular cycle of hard times, good times, and panics.

It’s an interesting idea that might be worth lining up with the one I had about cycles in computer innovations:

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