Business cycle persistence refers to the property that

A) real GDP is rarely exactly at trend.
B) booms and recessions last a long time.
C) when real GDP is above trend, it tends to stay above trend, and when it is below trend, it tends to stay below trend.
D) business cycles are persistently hard to predict.

C

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