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The authors propose a procedure for representing a time series of a smoothly varying trend component and a cyclical component. They document the nature of the comovements of the cyclical components of a variety of macroeconomic time series. The authors find that comovements are very different than the corresponding comovements of the slowly varying trend components. Copyright 1997 by Ohio State University Press.

Laura J. Miller’s Building Nature’s Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods examines the development the natural food market in the United States. From its early days of marginalization ...