They have enough assets to manipulate markets in the short term to achieve a political effect, or put pressure on trade negotiations.
Could they have had a hand in the perfectly timed 2008 stock market crash, that put Obama into office?
They have long threatened to dump their US Treasury bonds in a similar act of market manipulation, to drive up US interest rates, and bust the Federal budget.
They have clearly been considering using such cyber or economic weapons for a long time, and the USA has long been designated as their primary opponent in the their doctrine.
Deep State could make a lot of money:
1. Establish big short positions in highly liquid issues
2. Effect the arrest
3. Observe the arrest effects; a yuge sell-off
4. Buy back, make YUGE money
Has CNN yet blamed Russian hackers operating out of Macedonia?
Hillary von Pantsuit likely will.
What is the Nazi collaborator Soros up to now?
It began before she was arrested. I noticed it after the election.
I have little doubt that China can ruin us economically because they own all our debt, which our government is addicted to. But a USA with an economy in rubble would leave China with their own problems. They are far too dependent on the USA as a market, way more than we are on them (because they won't open their markets to us).
Besides, such an overt act would get retaliation. Economic at first, perhaps. Ultimately escalating to military. It would probably start WW3. They might make us broke but we could still feed ourselves and still launch our nukes, at least for a while before civil unrest of the gimmedat class started when the government checks stopped showing up.
Would China take that risk?
The two words that would guarantee Biden in 2020: ‘Trump Recession’.
More likely the attack of the margin call clerks.
“Hello, sir. I am as afraid you will have to deposit an additional $350 million in your account by the end of the day, or we will be required by Reg T to liquidate your securities.”
Deep state panic.
Probably something along that line. The Shanghai Stock Index has lost almost 1/3 of its value in the last year. Trump has been turning the screws, and we might see the Chinese attempt to kill the market and the market approach 20,000, but this economy is too strong.
Inventories have to be filled, and it’s going to take Q4, 1, and 2 to fill a lot of them.
Again, no mention of Iran...
Late fall market decline has been a fairly consistent phenomena since the arrival of large mutual funds. Fund Managers lock in gains toward the end of the year (and pad their bonuses.)
I highly doubt it. 2008 was caused by extremely over-leveraged mortgage positions by a lot of banks.
Nah - too many nanosecond computers doing the trading and all have similar algorithms telling them what to do....finite programming trying to deal with infinite possible “simulations”.
I’m disappointed PDJT hasn’t said anything about the two day sell off...I’d hoped he’d call it out as Fake and tout the unemployment rate, especially with blacks and Hispanics...
The sell off is fabricated.