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October 19, 2007
SouthAmerica: Just a Reminder - Nikolai Kondratieff - The real deal
Do you know who Kondratieff was?
A Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratieff, published a study in 1926 showing that a very long-term economic cycle existed. His major premise was that capitalist economies had a pattern of long wave cycles of boom and bust.
The bust cycle repeated itself approximately every 60 years. If you had read Kondratieff's paper in 1926, you would have known that an economic depression was around the corner.
Kondratieff identified four distinct phases the economy goes through during each cycle:
1) Inflationary growth,
2) Stagflation,
3) Deflationary growth, and finally
4) Depressionâfalling prices, falling stock prices, falling profits, debt collapse.
As the stock market is collapsing, a number of corporate scandals emerge such as Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications, Arthur Anderson, the sub-prime scandal, and many others. As the debt load reaches new highs in the economy, the result is a record-breaking number of personal bankruptcies, and foreclosures as is the case in the US today.
In 2007 it is estimated that we will have 2 million foreclosures in the United States. The last time the rate of foreclosures reached such a level was during the depression.
Believe me - the new depression is coming and it is right on schedule.
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October 19, 2007
SouthAmerica: Just a Reminder - Nikolai Kondratieff - The real deal
Do you know who Kondratieff was?
A Russian economist, Nikolai Kondratieff, published a study in 1926 showing that a very long-term economic cycle existed. His major premise was that capitalist economies had a pattern of long wave cycles of boom and bust.
The bust cycle repeated itself approximately every 60 years. If you had read Kondratieff's paper in 1926, you would have known that an economic depression was around the corner.
Kondratieff identified four distinct phases the economy goes through during each cycle:
1) Inflationary growth,
2) Stagflation,
3) Deflationary growth, and finally
4) Depressionâfalling prices, falling stock prices, falling profits, debt collapse.
As the stock market is collapsing, a number of corporate scandals emerge such as Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Adelphia Communications, Arthur Anderson, the sub-prime scandal, and many others. As the debt load reaches new highs in the economy, the result is a record-breaking number of personal bankruptcies, and foreclosures as is the case in the US today.
In 2007 it is estimated that we will have 2 million foreclosures in the United States. The last time the rate of foreclosures reached such a level was during the depression.
Believe me - the new depression is coming and it is right on schedule.
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