FAQ

Source Material for FAQs Includes Cycles: Selected Writings by Edward R. Dewey

  1. HOW DO I BECOME A MEMBER?

    Membership
    It’s easy! We have a sign-up page on the website. Click here to sign up.
  2. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO BECOME A MEMBER?

    Membership
    Membership dues are $199 a year.
  3. WHAT DO I GET WITH MEMBERSHIP?

    Membership
    As a member of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, you will have access to:
    • Cycle Scanner, a tool that can decode cycles and apply cyclic analysis to detect dominant cycles in any dataset. To learn more about Cycle Scanner, click here
    • Regular webinars conducted by members of the cycles community
    • A fellowship of scholars, scientists, and nonprofessional investigators, who are passionate about cycles analysis
    Additionally, the Foundation for the Study of Cycles maintains one of the world’s most extensive selections of statistical data. Many series are exclusive to FSC, which is continually enlarging its database. Membership gives you access to:
    • Classic Cycles Library
    • Cycles Magazine (1950-1997)
    • Dewey Microfilm Library
    • How to Make a Cycles Analysis
    • Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research
    • Miscellaneous Historical Archives
    For a more detailed description of member benefits, click here.
  4. ARE MY DONATIONS TAX DEDUCTIBLE?

    Donations
    Yes. The Foundation for the Study of Cycles is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution. Contributions to FSC are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. The Foundation’s tax identification number is 83-2540831.
  5. HOW CAN I MAKE A DONATION?

    Donations

    Visit our donation page or donate by mail:

    Foundation for the Study of Cycles

    PO Box 177

    Floyd, VA 24091

  6. HOW ARE MY DONATIONS USED?

    Donations
    Your tax-deductible donation is used to support FSC members in their continuing analysis of cycles and how they can be used for the betterment of mankind. Additionally, donations support our efforts to share our work with the public through online channels, publications, conferences, and more.
  7. WHAT IS IN THE LIBRARY?

    Library

    The Edward R. Dewey Memorial Library contains over 100,000 original documents connected to the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. The archives include journals, papers, letters, memos, reports, notes, and other documents created or used in the course of research and publication, with some documents dating back to 1884.

    FSC maintains the world’s most extensive selections of statistical data. Many series are exclusive to the Foundation, which is continually enlarging its database. FSC members have unlimited access to all content.

    For a more detailed inventory of the library, click here.

  8. WHAT IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF CYCLES?

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    The Foundation for the Study of Cycles is a fellowship of scholars, scientists, and nonprofessional investigators, who share a passion for better understanding recurring patterns and how they can be used to make the world a better place. It is an international non-profit that promotes and conducts the research of cycles wherever they are found.
  9. WHAT DOES THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF CYCLES DO?

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    The Foundation for the Study of Cycles is dedicated to the study of recurring patterns in the economy, natural and social sciences, and the arts. FSC curates one of the world’s most extensive collections of research and statistical data, which is accessible to all members in our online library. In addition to being part of a supportive community of like-minded cycles enthusiasts, members have access to the Foundation’s first, cloud-based cycles discovery and prediction service, Cycle Scanner.
  10. HOW LONG HAS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF CYCLES BEEN AROUND?

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    The Foundation for the Study of Cycles was incorporated on January 10, 1941, by Edward R. Dewey after he discovered coincident cycles in nature and business.
  11. HOW DID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF CYCLES GET STARTED?

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    Founder of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles (FSC), economist Edward Russel Dewey stumbled upon what would become his passion, the study of cycles, in the early 1930s. He was Chief Economic Analyst for the Department of Commerce carrying out an assignment from President Herbert Hoover to identify the causes of the Great Depression.

    Dewey interviewed the world’s leading economist and found that, when asked what they thought caused the depression, there was no consensus. After being advised to examine how business behavior occurred rather than why, he identified verifiable cycles in many economic variables. More astounding he found that when certain cycles came together at the same time it coincided with significantly large dips in the market.

    Upon learning of a Canadian conference on biological cycles held in 1931, Dewey joined forces with the conference leader, Copley Amory, and the conference’s Permanent Committee to form the Foundation for the Study of Cycles (1941), expanding the conference’s original scope to include the study of cycles in economics, geology, biology, sociology, physical sciences, and other disciplines.
  12. WHO IS EDWARD R. DEWEY?

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    Edward R. Dewey is the founder of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles. He was a significant contributor to the Foundation’s Cycles Magazine as well as the four-volume collection of reports on cycles. In addition to memos, reports, and papers, which can be found in the online Library, Dewey published Cycles: The Mysterious Forces That Trigger Events with author Og Mandino and Cycles: the Science of Prediction with Edwin F. Dakin. You can read his important paper, The Case for Cycles here.