George Friedman accepts 80 year cycle

[Warren Dew]

(04-25-2020, 07:28 AM)sbarrera Wrote: I would reckon that his '50 year' cycle is really the half-cycle for the 80 cycle; ie. he has identified both the cultural turning point and the political turning point and just didn't combine them into one cycle.

He traces it back as out of phase, though; his 50 year cycles began with Reagan, FDR, Hayes, Jackson, and Washington.  I'm not sure about Hayes, but for the rest of those, I'd agree they were turning points in the socially accepted economic approach.