Charles H. Dow on Business Cycles
"These comparisons could be indefinitely increased without changing the essential conclusion, which is that business of all kinds moves in periods of alternating expansion and contraction (Dow, Charles H. Wall Street Journal. Review and Outlook. May 26, 1900)."
Who was Charles H. Dow?
“Charles Henry Dow was an American journalist who co-founded Dow Jones & Company with Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Dow also founded The Wall Street Journal, which has become one of the most respected financial publications in the world. He also invented the Dow Jones Industrial Average as part of his research into market movements. He developed a series of principles for understanding and analyzing market behavior which later became known as Dow theory, the groundwork for technical analysis (source: Wikipedia.org).”