George Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster with degrees in political science and government. He worked for think tanks before founding Stratfor, an intelligence platform known for being open-sourced and available to the public, for a fee of course. Friedman earned renown for predicting a handful of major global events. The New York Times Magazine wrote in 2003 of Friedman and Stratfor “He predicted that the surging Asian economy would collapse by the end of 1997, while the American economy would reach unprecedented heights.” (NYTmag). I feel […]