As this recent gold market perturbation was kicking off, gCaptain laid out a conjecture that follows Cryptonomicon:
Can we talk about how, before WWII, nearly every village in China had a gold Buddha filled with gems, serving as the local bank?
Can we talk about how the Japanese looted them all and launched a massive sealift operation to stash them in the Philippines?
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Or how at least one of the CIA’s secret ship registries was accidentally exposed in the USAID data dump?