Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition With the current state of the markets – and the focus only on today's news and short-term cycles - In this episode – we will be looking at economies and markets in relation to Waves and cycles in a complex system – Like seasons in weather – markets have cycles – like weather though, predicting it is not the most accurate – To do this though we will have a look at what is known as a Kondratieff Wave - And do they still have applications to modern financial markets almost 100 years later  Understanding Kondratieff Waves A Kondratieff Wave is a long-term economic cycle believed to be born out of technological innovation - results in a long period of prosperity, then a lull, then a decline Theory was founded by Nikolai D. Kondratieff - a communist Russia-era economist who noticed agricultural commodity and copper prices experienced long-term cycles – focused on other economic cycles involved which have periods of evolution and self-correction. With every