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U.S. Dollar and monetary crises

The monetary context suggests consistency over centuries

Every 18.6 years the moon's nodes come back to where they started. That is orbital mechanics, not folklore, and it has been used as a market timing frame for longer than most of the people now discovering it have been alive. It is not the Juglar cycle, which runs seven to eleven years. It is two of those, the same span that governs real estate, and half of it lands on 9.3 years, which is the doorway into David McMinn's 9/56 year matrix. Two separate bodies of cycle research, built by people who were not talking to each other, describing the same structure from opposite ends.

That is the setup. Here is what the setup has historically been about.

Take the seven prior occasions when this particular nodal configuration has sat where it sits now. Six of them coincide with an argument about money itself. The gold standard fight of the 1890s. The suspension of gold in 1914. The confiscation and devaluation of the 1930s. The end of Bretton Woods. The credit crunch at the start of the 1990s. The 2008 rescue and everything that followed it. One passed quietly and produced nothing worse than an ordinary correction.

Six out of seven. Notice what the signature is not. It is not a stock market direction. Markets rose in some of those windows and fell in others. The consistent feature is that the monetary arrangement came up for renegotiation.

The reversed configuration carries the same weight, and that matters more than it sounds, because it means the interval that governs is the half, not the whole. The 1907 panic, the metals blowoff at the turn of the 1980s, the collapse and mania of 1998 to 2000 — all sit in the mirror-image window. Both halves of the axis mark turns. That is a nine-year rhythm, not an eighteen-year one, and we are inside it now.