Nature has been proved to be patterned in a cyclical manner. Even the ancient civilizations discovered certain regularities in the life cycle of the human being. Hence, it is no surprise that there are regularities and cycles in business and financial markets. Although events such as the Dutch "Tulipmania", the South Sea and Mississippi bubble of 1719/20, the stock market crashes of 1929, 1987, 2001 or the Japanese boom and bust of the late 1980s just to name a few, had different reasons and causes, they also had common grounds. The main object of this book is to qualitatively describe how...