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The "40-year pattern" most widely discussed refers to the long-term Kondratiev wave, or "K-Wave", which dictates that capitalist economies experience roughly 40- to 60-year cycles of technological innovation, debt leveraging, and wealth distribution, ultimately culminating in major socio-economic restructuring.
There are a handful of Economists with similar yet different theories on the Economic Cycle, as far as the intervals, 75 years? 7? 10? and how specific policy actions manage help or hinder or have negligible effects on the cycles velocity and direction, or not.
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