I don't know if I buy that. If we were to put this in white collar terms, we'd all be questioning Tim Cook if he decided that selling ice cream was a great resource allocation decision.

What business would you take your organized crime organization into for maximal returns?

Just stick everything in the S&P 500?

I'd get dirt on the sitting president, then leverage him to make decisions with obvious market implication. Examples: give me a day's notice that the federal government is going to invest in a dinky mining company, or tariffs are coming on foreign electronics... except next week <these companies> are exempt. You gotta believe people on the inside are making fortunes as the markets continue to make big swings up & down.

> You gotta believe people on the inside are making fortunes as the markets continue to make big swings up & down.

Yeah but that's friends of the emperor, not organized crime (although granted, the distinction between these two groups is getting smaller by the day).

Organized crime? That money is literally everywhere. Restaurants, real estate, cars, the stock markets... the only place you'll rarely spot it is, ironically, gambling, way too many chances of getting caught on a paper trail. A lot of it is also invested in art pieces stored in one tax haven/freeport or another, really easy to launder money or evade taxes.

Probably going into crypto, the federal government even encourage it now.

> More like, matured into white collar crime.

Honestly this is the first “advanced” mafia scheme I’ve heard of in a while.

Last time I heard about a mafia crime it was a very sloppy hit that sounded more like what you hear from teenagers in Chicago shooting at each other.

Though tbf it could easily have always been like that and I’m just blinded my media bias about a group of people I’ve never known form a time I’ve never known.

> Honestly this is the first “advanced” mafia scheme I’ve heard of in a while

My friend, supposed US citizen Larry Ellison - single largest private donor to the IDF - just bought TikTok because it was critical of the genocide in Gaza (lead by his friend Netanyahu). He also now owns CBS and installed Bari Weiss to run it.

> I’m just blinded my media bias about a group of people I’ve never known form a time I’ve never known.

You’ll get called antisemitic (if being pro American and anti genocide is that then so be it), but Ellison is just one case of many. How else could the US congress show bipartisan support to Israeli causes but can’t agree on anything else? How do the Epstein files get discarded? The list goes on.