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The Kondratiev Wave (You Won't See This at the Super Bowl)

February 05, 2016
Lori Hanes

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Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev was Stalin's chief economist. He studied capitalism, identifying and coining what's called the Kondratiev wave. The wave represents the cycles of an economy in seasonal terms --- spring, summer, winter, fall and the green shoots.

Spring is all about new ideas, change. During summer, things get a little relaxed, lazy. In the fall, leaves start to die and then transition into a winter --- a recession or depression. And then, spring again, the green shoots --- new ideas --- start to sprout up.

That's exactly how America once worked.

"If you look back at the American wave, up until the Fed, those were happening about every ten to 20 years," Glenn said Friday on The Glenn Beck Program. "And you see that we were going through very short, less than-a-year depressions. And everything would crash --- come crashing down. And then there would be this depression where everybody would be like, 'Oh, my gosh. I'm out of money.' But within a year, things started going up again."

When the government became too involved, choosing winners and losers, it interrupted the natural flow of things. Problems didn't corrected fully and purely.

"Every time we try to get government involved to slow it down, what it does is it adds a layer of corruption and allows people to be more and more stupid and not pay for their sins," Glenn said. "It allows for corruption to happen in the banking system and never have to pay for it. Because somebody will bail you out. There's no real cost to that."

The solution is smaller government.

"That's why we have to get off of the Fed. That's why we have to get back to the Constitution," Glenn said. "That's why we have to get back to a real free system."

Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:

GLENN: Yeah. Okay. Why? Why?

If you go back and you look and you look at the Kondratiev wave, which is the spring, summer, winter, fall, the green shoots. Okay. This was Kondratiev. He was Stalin's chief economist, and he went back and looked at capitalism.

JEFFY: Pat and I were just talking about the Kondratiev wave.

GLENN: Shut up.

PAT: We were doing that documentary on Kondratiev a while ago. Remember that?

JEFFY: Right! And it goes up and down with the green shoots.

GLENN: Just let me know when you're done.

PAT: Okay. I think we're done.

GLENN: Okay. Good.

So the Kondratiev wave where the spring comes. New ideas. And people start to -- kind of like tech industry. Okay. New ideas. New things are happening. And you can see these green shoots that, oh, my gosh, everything is going to change. But then it kind of settles in, in the summer, where all of these companies get fat, they get sassy, they get lazy. And they're like, "You know what, we're going to be here forever."

Then you start to see autumn. And you start to see the leaves change, and the seasons change. And you're like, "You know what, something is going to fold here. Something is not right." And everybody hanging on and hangs on and hangs on, until all the leaves are gone. And then it's in the winter. And it hammers into winter, which is a recession or a depression.

Then it balances things out, and you start to see green shoots again. Well, if you look back at the American wave, up until the Fed, those were happening about every ten to 20 years. And you see that we were going through very short, less than-a-year depressions. And everything would crash -- come crashing down. And then there would be this depression where everybody would be like, "Oh, my gosh. I'm out of money." But within a year, things started going up again. Okay?

It's like burning the underbrush of a forest. You have to burn an underbrush, otherwise the entire forest will burn down.

This is what the fed was to do. The fed was to stop those depressions and those giant spikes. Well, they didn't, did they? They've spaced them out farther, but they've made them bigger. So the -- we never had a Great Depression before. We had depressions. 1920 was a depression deeper than 1933. 1929, 1933, deeper than the Great Depression. But because we didn't have the Fed -- the Fed was not prepared to turn all the levers. It was over within a year, and it led to the Roaring Twenties.

So every time we try to get government involved to slow it down, what it does is it adds a layer of corruption and allows people to be more and more stupid and not pay for their sins. It allows for corruption to happen in the banking system and never have to pay for it. Because somebody will bail you out. There's no real cost to that.

That's why we have to get off of the Fed. That's why we have to get back to the Constitution. That's why we have to get back to a real free system. And a real free system doesn't include special payments to the government so they can prop up a certain company.

When he talks about, you know, the drug companies and you can't do anything about it, his solution is, control the drug company. Well, that will lead to less and less innovation and ground-breaking drugs. So his idea is, let's control it. Instead, what you should do is get the drug companies out of the lobbying business entirely. There shouldn't be the lobbying business in Washington.

When you start to have these big companies lobby -- why were the drug companies, why were the insurance companies for Obamacare? How is that possible?

PAT: Because --

GLENN: It was good for them.

PAT: Yeah. Big-time good for them.

GLENN: It was good for them. It's bad for us. But their lobbyists got in and made it good for the elites and for the companies. And we all lost. That's why you have to clean up the corruption. And the only way to clean up the corruption is to make the government small enough to where it doesn't matter. It stays out and lets people do their own thing. And you let those companies rise and fall. If somebody is going to screw the public -- yes, people are going to get screwed. People are going to get hurt. But it will happen, and it will happen quickly. And the government's job is to put those people in jail, period.

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Kamala Harris dropped the ball at CNN's town hall

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Vice President Kamala Harris held a town hall on CNN Wednesday night, asking voters questions about the swing state of Pennslyvania. It was a train wreck.

Harris could not give a single straight answer to any question, and would instead lapse into long, word-salad answers. At times even Anderson Cooper, who was hosting the event, seemed fed up with her answers and tried to steer her back on track. There were even a few times that felt like Cooper was practically spoon-feeding the answer to Harris, who still managed to drop the ball.

This town hall was a flop at a time when the polls revealed Harris really couldn't afford it.

She talked more about Trump than herself.

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Throughout her campaign and the CNN town hall, Harris repeatedly promised that her administration would break away from the "hate" and "divisiveness" that supposedly characterize President Trump and his campaign. But despite these promises, it seemed like Harris's answer to every question was to bash Trump. From questions about how she would support or not support Israel to questions about potential Supreme Court reforms, the answer was the same: Orange Man Bad.

Even the CNN after-show panel complained that she spent far too much time talking about Trump. Her performance lacked substance and proved that her campaign isnot about anything she has to offer the American people, it's solely about hating Donald Trump.

She missed the opportunity to further define herself.

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Harris spent so much time Trump-bashing that she never got into any detail about her policies. This was an event designed to give her the chance to lay out her platform and define who she is as a candidate and she utterly failed to do so. As mentioned before, all she really spoke about was Trump, a candidate who almost every voter is highly familiar with. This was a critical failure on Harris's part, she missed possibly one of, if not the last chance to make an impression on voters before the election and according to recent polls, this was a chance she could not afford to miss.

She gave several radical and dangerous remarks.

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The few times Harris managed to reveal some of her policy ideas it became clear why she was being so coy: they are blatantly dangerous. In between her anti-Trump tirades where she makes Trump out to be the biggest threat to the Constitution the country has ever seen, Harris let slip that she is open to Supreme Court reforms, including adding more Justices to the bench. This is known as court-packing and is most certainly unconstitutional, as well as one of the hallmarks of an authoritarian takeover, as Glenn has pointed out.

Harris also spent the first several minutes of the event making dangerous accusations against Trump, calling him a fascist and comparing him to Adolf Hitler. She would echo this sentiment the following day in a surprise address. Glenn explained on his radio show just how dangerous and inciteful this kind of language is and the kind of damage it can do. This looks like a desperate, last-ditch attempt to sway people away from Trump during this critical time of the election cycle.

Meet Trump's dream team who will make America healthy again

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Americans are sick of being sick. In a recent TV special, Glenn revealed one in three Americans suffer from a chronic disease, and it's only getting worse.

But there is hope! President Trump has taken notice of our dysfunctional and corrupt system and has assembled a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) dream team who plan on making big changes once Trump gets back into office. This team plans on fighting back against federal regulatory agencies such as the FDA, which are bought out by Big Pharma and Big Food and allow toxic ingredients that most other countries have banned into our food.

So who is this dream team? Below, we've compiled a list of the most prominent figures who are working with Trump to make America healthy again:

RFK Jr.

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Former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made the declining health of Americans a focal point in his campaign. After dropping out of the race, he combined forces with President Trump, promising to assist Trump in reinventing federal health agencies, such as the FDA and CDC, to purge them of corruption, and to reduce the dominance of ultra-processed foods full of toxic additives. RFK Jr. has adopted the slogan Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) in reference to Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan.

Casey and Calley Means

Over this last month, Dr. Casey Means and her entrepreneur brother Calley have taken the Conservative sphere by storm after testifying in front of the U.S. Senate. The siblings have been making the circuit, speaking alongside Jorden Peterson, appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, getting a shoutout by RFK Jr., and even joining Glenn on his most recent TV special. Casey and Calley are trying to expose the corruption in the upper levels of industry and federal agencies and fight back against what Dr. Casey describes as a "genocidal health collapse."

Dr. Robert Redfield

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Former CDC Director Dr. Redfield has recently rejoined Trump's Make America Healthy Again team. His experience as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control means he is familiar with the corruption that rots our federal agencies and has good reason to believe that the Trump administration can turn things around. Dr. Redfield has shown concern for the alarming rate of chronic disease that plagues Americans. He expressed special concern for children, given that over 40 percentof American children suffer from at least one chronic condition.

Can fear win the vote? Democrats have a dangerous strategy to demonize Trump.

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The Democratic Party’s nominee is deliberately spreading false, fear-driven narratives to turn her base against Donald Trump, regardless of the consequences.

Have you noticed how Kamala Harris and her allies in the corporate left-wing media have become bolder in labeling Trump a “fascist”? A recent New York Times article revealed that Democrats have shed their reluctance to use the term. In fact, it has become their rallying cry as Election Day approaches.

What’s the real goal here? According to John Daniel Davidson at the Federalist, Harris and her supporters are using this rhetoric to energize their base — and more disturbingly, to prepare them for violence if Trump wins. The fearmongering isn’t just about driving people to the polls; it’s about creating an atmosphere of rage and chaos.

Let’s show the Democrats that our republic doesn’t bend to fear and certainly doesn’t bend to those who twist the truth for political gain.

Harris is deliberately spreading false, fear-driven narratives to turn her base against Trump, regardless of the consequences. This is the same Kamala Harris who, during the George Floyd riots in 2020, encouraged bailing out rioters and urged the violence to continue both before and after the election.

For example, Harris has claimed that Trump will use the Department of Justice as a weapon against his political enemies if he returns to office. But let’s pause for a second: Who is using the Justice Department as a political tool right now? Harris’ own administration, led by Joe Biden, has weaponized federal agencies against Trump and conservatives for years.

Harris also recently entertained the idea that Trump would round up people who “don’t look white” and throw them into camps. During an interview with Charlamagne tha God, a caller suggested this scenario. Instead of refuting the caller’s paranoia, Harris nodded and said, “You have hit on a really important point.”

This kind of divisive rhetoric fuels fear and division in our country. Let’s not forget: Trump was president for four years, and there were no camps, roundups, or authoritarian crackdowns on dissenters. Leftists claim Trump and his supporters spread conspiracy theories, but they are the ones pushing baseless and dangerous claims.

While Democrats claim to defend democracy, they are increasingly aligning with authoritarianism. For example, the EPA funneled billions of dollars to left-wing organizations, including one tied to Stacey Abrams, for “voter mobilization” efforts. This funding came through the Inflation Reduction Act — a taxpayer-funded omnibus bill. Imagine the outrage if Republicans in Congress gave billions of taxpayer dollars to right-wing groups. The media would be in an uproar, and there would be protests at the White House gates. But because it’s Democrats doing it, the mainstream media turns a blind eye. These are the warning signs of an authoritarian regime.

This is why it’s more critical than ever for Americans to see through the left’s manipulation. Trump’s not the fascist here — he’s a threat to the left's power. The real danger lies in the left’s escalating rhetoric, which is designed to incite chaos if things don’t go its way. And let me be clear: That’s exactly what leftists are preparing for.

Don’t let them succeed.

The best way to counter their lies is by getting out to vote and encouraging others to do the same. If every single one of us does this, we won’t let the fearmongering and lies being peddled by Harris and the Democrats succeed. Let’s show them that our republic doesn’t bend to fear and certainly doesn’t bend to those who twist the truth for political gain.

'Get involved': Here's how YOU can join Glenn on election night

America is currently standing at a fork in the road. Which path we take will determine our fate as a nation.

One path is “we try something entirely new,” as in “not the Constitution,” and the other path is “we go back towards the Constitution,” says Glenn Beck.

The stakes for this decision are higher than they’ve ever been.

“We're deciding this year whether or not our kids are going to grow up in a country that gives them the opportunity to be themselves and to move forward and chart their own course, or we're going to continue to live in a place where we're not sure if our kids are going to have a better life than we did,” Glenn warns.

Regardless of who you vote for, Glenn says that one thing applies to everyone: “You’ve got to get involved this year,” which includes voting.

Election Day is rapidly approaching, and it will undoubtedly be a night that goes down in history, which is why BlazeTV will be broadcasting it live.

“We’d love to share it with you,” says Glenn.

Go to BlazeElection.com for exclusive access to our election night broadcasting. Your BlazeTV+ subscription also gives you access to all BlazeTV content as well as Blaze News.

“Sign up and be a part of the family as we go through this together,” invites Glenn.

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