anti-inductive situations: forum for week of 17 October

This may be a long shot, but perhaps this can be thought about economically as well. My example is related to the 4 cycles of a business year(expansion, peak, recession, and recovery. If this is looked at on a graph, it may be inferred that one stage could last longer than another. Also, similar to the post before mine, the pressure point in a vacuum gauge or a manometer could be assumed to continue to rise.