The 'Ouroboros Loop,' named after the snake eating its own tail.
The engine describes it as a self-feeding money cycle where one entity profits from both the problem and the solution.
Examples given: BlackRock's 'Going Direct' plan, the symbiosis between Iran's Revolutionary Guard and its military-industrial base, and the way the 'Big Three' asset managers commonly own shares across competing companies.
It's a core pattern the engine tracks — the same hand quietly collecting on both sides of a manufactured problem.