* Yes, the white supremacist and FBI snitch Harold Charles Turner
Some observations about Hal Turner
1) The Wikipedia page was started and groomed by IP addresses
2) He broadcast-ed from the basement of his moms house - not mentioned
3) Hal had an "inflection point" in 2008 where the world ended for him
Right around (but a little before) the great financial crisis; a little little bit before his arrest:
This is a theory on my part (a conspiracy theory - as a one off type of posit | that plus covid from a Chinese lab | and that is about it for me)
I think he was being fed information from a Lehman+/- insider that saw the collapse of the financial system coming! in a few short weeks!
A whole lot of folks knew that things were going to blow as early as 2003, you are not right about that stuff unless you time it correctly, so you could have placed bets and been bankrupted with leverage for five years. Even folks that timed the explosion correctly almost did not get paid.
Anyway, Turner would rant rant rant rant vitriol - and then clearly talk about some very complex details about the inner workings of hidden problems going on at Lehman, complete with fatal knock on effects - then the ranting continued. Then he pounded a coming financial collapse over a few weeks; and then boom he was arrested (for making threats against judges), and then the financial ka-boom in short order. (totally correct timing, for something brewing for five years).
I did not know who Turner was, but I found him asymmetrically because he was talking about some very sophisticated financial smack, the internals of how CDS, CDS Squared, and other derivatives. Stuff nobody (but sophisticated financial insiders) understood. I tune into the guy and WTF he was a talking-walking wak-a-doodle and then all of a sudden he was cogent about some very sophisticated financial concepts he could not in any way understand.
I think there was a great deal of concern (at the Federal Level) that Turner (by spilling inside information about our investment banks collapsing) was going to cause a financial crisis, hence he was arrested. Turner made himself into a big problem because he was giving voice to a concern that could be quietly handled otherwise.
He was making enough noise that I found him; I am sure others in finance did as well.
Without Turner spouting off, I am sure there was confidence that the closed door maneuvering of Geitner Kashkari, Paulson, Fuld with counter-parties would work itself out as a small problem, a bump in the road.
It is stranger than fiction, not a trace of his pre-financial crisis "ramblings" can be found. Its stranger than fiction that a guy like Turner would be talking about the sophisticated internals of complex financial institutions and instruments. I expressly listened to that stuff (with great pain to myself - having to weed through his total nonsense and vitriol) to find some astute financial prognostications. On the Financial stuff, he knew nothing about - and did not understand, he was spot on and very predictive of things to come.
Lehman insider it must have been.
Stranger than fiction, fiction or just strange - take your pick.