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https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/the-continued-uprising-tha
"Not long afterward, he claims, the C.I.A. telephoned his firm, eager to get a closer look at his model. Agents had been watching him and were curious about how he had managed to call the collapse of the ruble. They asked if he would come to Washington, he said, and build his model for them. He declined. Finally, in 1999, he published a report—his last at Princeton Economics—explaining the part that pi had played in his calculations.
The model wasn’t perfect. It failed, among other things, to foresee its developer’s demise. In September, 1999, Armstrong was charged with defrauding Japanese investors of nearly a billion dollars. It was a strange and convoluted case, and his view of it, unsurprisingly, does not square with the government’s. The upshot, though, is that he has now spent more than nine years in jail—a pi cycle and then some."
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