Nah they wouldn't do that would they?
'A 2008 paper by Arindrajit Dube, Ethan Kaplan, and Suresh Naidu (hat tip MS) found evidence that the CIA and/or members of the Executive branch either disclosed or acted on information about top-secret authorizations of coups. Stocks in “highly exposed” firms rose more in the pre-coup authorization phase than they did when the coup was actually launched."
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"And given what has already been revealed about the NSA’s data gathering, if you were a clever trader and had access to this information, how would you mine it?"
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