Varying or acting in opposition to regular cycles; moving contrary to cyclical patterns or trends.
From anti- + cyclical (cyclic + -al, alternative adjective suffix). Both anticyclic and anticyclical exist in English, with -al being more formal and common in academic writing.
Anticyclical policies are often brilliant in theory but terrible in practice—governments should spend when recessions hit, but politicians face budget pressures when revenue falls, so the economic cure becomes politically impossible to swallow.
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