Here are the decisions that the business cycle can help businesses make:
1. Whether to grow of shrink the business.
2. Whether to increase or decrease production.
3. Whether to hire or lay off worker.
4. Whether to invest or save money.
Hope this answers your question.
Because they believed that big businesses are the ones that causes large economic growth in the U.S.
Either the tropic of Capricorn or the tropic of Cancer but in the middle between them is the Equator.