Predictions Eric Got Right

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Quotes

2001 Eric meets Jeffrey Epstein and immediately after concluding the meeting calls his wife and tells her he “just met a construct.”
2002 Eric's research with A. Abdulali on valuation perversities for Mortgage Backed Securities appeared in Risk in 2002 and was among the earliest in the literature to call attention to the dangers posed by such illiquid securities. The collapse occurred in 2008. Source
2011 Eric’s Edge.org article predicted the rise of a Donald Trump-like leader who was elected President of the United States in 2016.

There were others, too. Let's add links to them

you can also go through the transcripts of episodes and Eric's tweets to look for more examples.