If the 1990's were a decade of loss of faith in government for its excesses of debt buildup then the first decade of the millennium will see the same occur with capitalism and the corporation. One of the more intriguing characteristics of a K-wave winter is the buildup of sinister forces that are religious in nature.
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A Wave Transports Energy and Not Matter. When a wave is present in a medium (that is, when there is a disturbance moving through a medium), the individual particles of the medium are only temporarily displaced from their rest position. There is always a force acting upon the particles that restores them to their original position.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-1/What-is-a-Wave
Thus, the total duration of this second K-Wave was 55 years. Next, the K-Wave fell from 1920 to around 1950, when prices generally stabilized, inflation slowly kicked in and prices began rising again into the inflationary part of the K-Wave.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/stocks-gold-and-k-wave
The 1930's saw the rise of Nazism that led to WW2. But in an earlier generation K-wave winter in the latter quarter of the 19th century we saw the rise of the Klu Klux Klan as a backlash to the South losing the Civil War. Today it is the so-called war on terrorism led allegedly by Muslim fundamentalist fanatics.
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Finally, the point that chiefly concerns us is how gold can be expected to perform during the final third of the deflationary K-Wave—the part we have now entered and will likely represent the most extreme part of the present K-Wave.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/stocks-gold-and-k-wave
However, a corollary to K-Wave research is that while gold is most sensitive to inflation and deflation, and while it is almost always the first major commodity to peak out in times of inflation, it is likewise the first to bottom out ahead of the K-Wave deflationary leg.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/stocks-gold-and-k-wave
In the case of a water wave in the ocean, the medium through which the wave travels is the ocean water. In the case of a sound wave moving from the church choir to the pews, the medium through which the sound wave travels is the air in the room.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-1/What-is-a-Wave
Add the average 54-year K-wave period and we are in the spring expansion of the new K-wave. But what the Kondratieff wave is about is a study of long cycles of debt buildup and repudiation. It is not exclusively about price inflation and deflation periods. Deflation is caused in part by the debt collapse.
http://www.kwaves.com/kond_overview.htm
A wave can be described as a disturbance that travels through a medium from one location to another location. Consider a slinky wave as an example of a wave. When the slinky is stretched from end to end and is held at rest, it assumes a natural position known as the equilibrium or rest position.
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/waves/Lesson-1/What-is-a-Wave
Thus, the entire K-Wave from peak to peak began in 1815 and ended in 1865, making a total of 50 years. This is the bare minimum for a K-Wave. The next K-Wave began that same year, with commodity prices generally falling into the trough of the deflationary leg of the K-Wave in around 1895 (30 years). From there, they rebounded into the inflationary leg, which lasted until around 1920—25 years.
http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/stocks-gold-and-k-wave
what is the k wave
The K wave is Kondratieff wave. The Kondratieff wave is the k wave.