This is great news till you Google who Victor Bout is and realize Biden just got taken to the woodshed on this deal. This has to go down as the most lopsided trade in the history of trades. What happened to Griner was beyond fucked but this feels like a short sighted PR stunt
1/ Warren Buffett always recommends buying into the S&P 500 over picking stocks.
But in 2005, he raised the stakes with a $500k bet: "Nobody can select a set of at least 5 hedge funds that would match the S&P500 over ten years."
Only one person took up the bet - Ted Seides.