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There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8 Ball. Does North Korea really have the bomb? No. Will America's feud with France deepen? Yes. Will Bush win re-election? Ask again later.

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hey are the financial traders and investors who get advice from Stratfor's Web site or from Friedman himself. In the global economy, unrest and uncertainty cloud the market like an Arabian sandstorm, and the Wall Street guys desperately want to know: Will oil be up or down? Is the E.U. a friend or an enemy?
''We're a place you can go,'' Friedman told me, ''to get the mysteries answered.''
The strangest thing about George Friedman -- and this is by no means an easy call to make -- is that he wouldn't know Wall Street from Little Italy.

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When I was living in South Korea a decade ago, there was an infamous incident involving an heiress to the family behind Korean Airlines. After getting into her first class seat, a steward handed her a bag of nuts. She immediately flipped out on him, as she thought the nuts should be warmed & served in a dish. She tried ejecting the steward from the plane, making such a scene that the flight was ultimately delayed 20 minutes. The incident became public, the media quickly dubbing it “Nutgate.” I remember when the heiress, Heather Cho, returned to Korea and apologized to the whole nation, hanging her head in shame (what you see below).

Cho ultimately resigned from one of her several executive positions at Korean Air & was subsequently found guilty in a South Korean court of obstructing aviation safety and given a twelve-month prison sentence, of which she served five months.

I bring this up because … I can’t shake the feeling her behavior wasn’t quite as bad as what we’re seeing in the Epstein Files.

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