
Secular Cycles



As I have said before, political instability breaks out a bit more than a decade from the end of a social and economic cycle.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

The socioeconomic cycle shifts about every fifty years and alters the dynamic of the American economy and society.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
“a sudden acceleration of the historical process in a terrifying manner,” sufficient to “release economic, social, and moral forces of unforeseen power and dimensions, which often make return to the status quo impossible.”