Those ass holes have a place in the market, but I don’t think this downturn has anything to do with that. Players like that can have an effect on certain securities, even markets, but only for short periods of time. Plus, they also need to be right when they do so.
Soros was indeed right with England, Mexico and Asia when he pummeled them. What he did may have been unethical, but he knew that he was up against a straw tiger that had no backing.
“... but I don’t think this downturn has anything to do with that...”
Their manipulations plus that of foreign actors in the bond and security markets plus our own home grown subversives in the regulating and rating agencies could.
You are absolutely correct but, I have no doubt that any of these antiAmerican Leftists would drop 10% to advance their agenda.