So he just copy and pasted an email someone else had sent him and passed it off as his own? This idea that he was super-smart and that’s why all these people sought him out is obviously nonsense. I watched bits of the last interview he did with Bannon and was shocked at how unintelligent he seemed. His explanations of the financial system wouldn’t pass muster in a freshman Econ class.
Cult leaders never seem to be nearly as impressive as their followers think. I watched a documentary about the NXIVM cult. The first episode was all about people raving about how impossibly smart and charismatic Keith Raniere was, then he showed up on screen and came across like a guy who got a 2.26 GPA in college and sold a lot of Amway (which was the case).
Deceased in 2024, Edward Jay Epstein was widely known not simply as an academic, but as a journalist, researcher and author on a wide range of controversies, most notably the Kennedy assassination. His 1966 book Inquest was among the first major criticisms of the Warren Report. His later book about Lee Harvey Oswald, Legend, drew from interviews with former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton.
Many decades ago people would study books of great quotations to be able to say something witty at parties of the intellectual elite.
In the same vein, if you want to pass yourself off as some financial genius with deep insight into global finance, it is not at all surprising that you would pass someone else's thoughts/email off as your own. Particularly if you had no financial skill and deep knowledge.
Was Ettore Gotti Tedeschi related to John Gotti 🤦♂️?
So he just copy and pasted an email someone else had sent him and passed it off as his own? This idea that he was super-smart and that’s why all these people sought him out is obviously nonsense. I watched bits of the last interview he did with Bannon and was shocked at how unintelligent he seemed. His explanations of the financial system wouldn’t pass muster in a freshman Econ class.
Cult leaders never seem to be nearly as impressive as their followers think. I watched a documentary about the NXIVM cult. The first episode was all about people raving about how impossibly smart and charismatic Keith Raniere was, then he showed up on screen and came across like a guy who got a 2.26 GPA in college and sold a lot of Amway (which was the case).
Deceased in 2024, Edward Jay Epstein was widely known not simply as an academic, but as a journalist, researcher and author on a wide range of controversies, most notably the Kennedy assassination. His 1966 book Inquest was among the first major criticisms of the Warren Report. His later book about Lee Harvey Oswald, Legend, drew from interviews with former CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton.
Many decades ago people would study books of great quotations to be able to say something witty at parties of the intellectual elite.
In the same vein, if you want to pass yourself off as some financial genius with deep insight into global finance, it is not at all surprising that you would pass someone else's thoughts/email off as your own. Particularly if you had no financial skill and deep knowledge.
Thanks for this reporting on the Vatican Bank, which required some plowing through lots of confusing information.