ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Riding The Kondratieff Wave by Tim Elrod Here's a glance at an often overlooked cycle theory. I first found out about Kondratieff's long wave theory in college. I was sitting in a library courtyard at University of California (Berkeley), and it occurred to me that there was as much mysticism and wonder in business as there was in religion or philosophy. I also concluded that the foundation of economics was suspect, a relic of the caretaker class of journalists, academics, and government bureaucrats. Maybe supply and demand worked randomly in the short term but to really see the market, expla...