| This post was certainly not worth a downvote, but the details are a little fuzzy. Perhaps it was the because your second sentence seems to assume nefarious intention on Stratfor's part. I'm upvoting, for the sake of discussion. StratCap was an attempt by Stratfor to start their own hedge fund of sorts, funded by Shea Morenz, previously a regional director for Goldman Sachs. Morenz, "proposed a new venture, StratCap, which would allow us to utilize the intelligence we were gathering about the world in a new but related venue-an investment fund. Where we had previously advised other hedge funds. We would now have our own, itself fully funded by Shea. Shea invested over $2 million in Stratfor and more in StratCap. In return he took a seat on Stratfor's board and a minority position in Stratfor, whose control remains in Don's and my hands. It was a good deal for Stratfor, a good deal for StratCap, and since the deal closed officially on August 1, we now have
the task of doing what we all want-building Stratfor and StratCap." [1] email from Friedman to Stratfor employees As I understand it, the deal never took flight, and caught a lot of clouded press after the leak. I'm not sure what you mean by:
>organization made to funnel insider info into other nations where it would be profited off of Statfor deals with off-the-shelf OSINT available to you and me. StratCap was Stratfor's attempt to profit FROM a hedge fund "Where [they] had previously advised other hedge funds." [1] If you have any info on StratCap having 'insider trading' intentions, I'd love to hear about it. [1] - http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/2312421_re-fwd-labor-day-r... |