In this article, Publisher Tom Gale writes: This is my fourth post-recession cycle since I first starting working in industrial and distribution markets in the mid-1980s. The current cycle has been the longest for us all, but has some interesting parallels to other cycles. Here are a few thoughts from a file I keep labeled: I might just learn something if I listen hard enough. (Apologies/credit to fellow St. Louis native Yogi Berra.)

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