Economic Espionage

Categories: Econ, Regulations

It’s 1983 and the Soviets are looking for some economic dirt they can use to screw with the U.S. markets. They manage to get their hands on a payload of valuable economic intelligence, including financial data (the credit card numbers of several mistresses for a high-profile congressman), policy (U.S. drug import/export) and government tech (specs for America’s broad collection of peace fireworks).

What makes it specifically “economic” (rather than industrial or corporate) is that it’s typically done on a very large scale, and with quasi-patriotic national interest in mind, or is sponsored by a country’s government. Think, um…Inception. Luckily, that whole Russian meddling in U.S. affairs all stopped in 1983, so we don't have to even think about it any more. (Where's the sarcastic eyeroll emojo on this thing?)

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