131 The Real Game of Missing Money Top Ten Stories: Part I “Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.” ~Edward Tiller Part I includes our stories for our first two categories: economy & financial markets and geopolitics. ECONOMY & FINANCIAL MARKETS “The [Federal Accounting Standards Advisory] Board determined that options other than those permitted in this Statement [FASAB 56 proposing federal agencies keep secret books] may not always adequately resolve national security concerns….Without this Statement, there is a risk that reporting entities may need to clas- sify their entire financial statements to comply with existing accounting standards, which would likely result in the need to classify a large portion of the government-wide financial statements.” ~ Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board, August 2018 “No Comment” ~ U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission on FASAB proposal that U.S. federal government, the largest issuer of securities in the world, be allowed to maintain secret books, March 2018 Story #1: Secret Books: Harvard, HUD, DOD, and U.S. Treasury Go Dark—The Pricing Mechanism Goes Dark, Too T he successful push for secret books and secret financial markets was the most important story of 2018. The secrecy trend was foreshadowed in 2017, when the Harvard Corpora- tion began taking steps to “go dark”—reducing transparency and getting rid of individuals knowledgeable about the financial coup. In 2018, after the Department of Defense (DOD) admit- ted that it was incapable of producing an audit, the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB) quietly introduced a policy that negates any pretense of oversight by making it legal for government agencies and affiliate entities to have secret books. Secrecy combined with AI are also destroying the pricing mechanism. These moves signal a thriving breakaway civilization and hidden system of finance—and implementation of a new model that not only protects the perpetrators of the financial coup from liability but facilitates further flows out the back door for disaster capital- ism and control by private corporations. (Gee, Harvard is buying up land and water in Califor- nia….) Who knew that the Federal government could usher in a meaner and more aggressive fascist model through changes in an obscure accounting policy?