Secretive organisation with ties to CIA predicting black Swan event?

Can we call it a Black Swan event when we can guess exactly whats happening?

a reply to: Butterfinger

Can we call it a Black Swan event when we can guess exactly whats happening?

that would be more like common sense.
you know like knowing that the U.S. and allies pulling out of afghanistan with taliban warlords still running round would take back over.

a reply to: Torlin

And then again you have them, not worried at all about things that do affect them, in the long run.

Palantir? The same CIA funded entity that's got it's little grubby fingers all over forums and social media, and can supposedly be able to predict the future through it's "advanced" AI algorithm?

a reply to: AutomateThis1v2

Yes these ones.... Oh you said nothing about buying a Dwave.... Nevermind, move along nothing to see here....

a reply to: Mysterychic88

I remember seeing a BBC series in the mid 1990's called something like 'Scenarios' based on lots futurologist predictions, none of which was entirely correct, nor entirely wrong.

One program was about how the first Spanish first language speaking US president went to war with the UK over the oil around the Falklands. Another was about how the west rebuilt the Iron Curtain to keep eastern european migrants out. A third talked about an unstoppable wave of migrants out of Africa into Eorope.

Always worried me the George Bush grew up learning Spanish, and was fluent!

So, if this was a published set of scenarios, what scenarios are kept secret?

a reply to: Mysterychic88

I wonder what the NY Fed is doing with all that seized treasury gold from Afghanistan? Just spitballing. No data to back this up, yet.

Hmmm.

Extracting money from taxpayers to fund Afghanistan, then seize the funds when you allow the country to collapse, then you have a sweetheart deal with arranged buyers of the gold. Maybe bulk sales get a discounted price, which in the current market is a pretty significant short-term advantage for a buyer. Maybe it's taken as payment for services provided.

I'd ask if there is a law governing how this would normally be handled, but we know that laws have become completely irrelevant to the people in power. Brazen criminal acts are nothing.

If they bought it publicly there should be a trail showing where they bought it. Be interesting to find out if they're required to disclose it on their balance sheets. We already know the futures and derivatives market are often shell games where the only winner is the one holding the shells.

a reply to: Ksihkehe I see the former Afghan president is now denying he fled with helicopters full of dosh so goodness knows I somehow doubt he is going to admit to it.
But you make a valid point to take the time in an emergency situation to bag up insane quantities of money..... Seems like someone was calling in a favour owed

MC

a reply to: Doxanoxa certainly curious subjects considering what we have and are experiencing. I would dread to think tbh.
MC

Didn't Afghanistan gets it's gold yoinked by the Fed since the Taliban took control of the country?

Kind of?, Afghanistan has 22 tons of gold in a New York vault. The Taliban can’t touch it..

You know, Afghan gold is gone now! Poor poor Afghan.