To: Twotone
The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the rise of the internet, the personal computer, the breakdown of the Soviet Union, and the Pacific tsunami of December 2004 apparently qualify as black swan events.
The rise of the Internet and the personal computer were not "Black Swan Events", they unfolded over years, and businesses and pundits and fiction writers foresaw most of the aspects of both.
President Reagan accurately predicted the breakdown of the Soviet Union.
I would think something along the lines of the Bear-Stearns collapse followed by a lot bank bailouts would come closer, as the U.S. response to bank failures had never been that massive. Ditto covid. We have had worse pandemics without the craziness that Covid entailed, largely because doctors and scientists had never been so politicized before.
8 posted on
12/26/2023 4:00:43 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Dr. Sivana
2008 when “someone” (Soros) withdrew 500 BILLION from the money markets in the soace of 2 hours, thus kicking off the 2008 financial meltdown.
I remember Bush talking about the financial attack on the U.S. and then it getting hushed up.
11 posted on
12/26/2023 4:10:29 PM PST by
Darksheare
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