102 Generating Economic Cycles 



reason for believing that the Venus cycle is accom- 

 panied with a synchronously varying force which could 

 produce the terrestrial meteorological cycles? .The con- 

 sequence of the long rotation period of Venus with the 

 one face always turned towards the Sun is that the 

 planet is in a constant state of violent meteorological 

 commotion on a vast scale; and this planet, which is 

 about the size of the Earth, thrusts itself at intervals of 

 eight years almost exactly in the direct path of radia- 

 tion from the Sun to the Earth. Is it not probable that 

 the storm-racked planet creates a disturbance in the 

 interplanetary medium which affects the Sun's radia- 

 tion on its way to the Earth? If that is the case, then 

 the cause of the eight-year generating cycle is the planet 

 Venus in its eight-yearly periodic motion with respect to 

 the Earth and the Sun. 



