Business cycle graph with recessions shaded and irregular cycles

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Business cycle graph with Real GDP up the side, Time along the bottom and no numbers on the axes: a blue wave of real GDP with three peaks and three troughs of different heights and spacing, each labeled Peak or Trough, each higher than the last as the dashed long-run trend rises, gray bands shading each fall from a peak to the next trough, an arrow to the first fall labeled Recession, an arrow to the rise before the second peak labeled Expansion, and an arrow down to the dashed line labeled Long-run trend — Three irregular business cycles, each rise and fall a different size and length, around a dashed, upward-sloping long-run trend. Gray bands shade the recessions, from each peak down to the trough after it. Each peak and trough is labeled, along with one recession, one expansion and the long-run trend.

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