[grania]

Chapter 1: Billionaires dump their stocks before anyone else does and make huge profits. More "little people" sell than buy, so the price goes down. There's a media-inspired panic, and prices go way down. Us little folk miss out.

Chapter 2: Prices are really, really low. The media and the financial gurus tell us the world is coming to an end. Lots more people cash out and the price gets scary low.

Chapter 3:Those billionaires who cashed out in Chapter 1 save the day. They buy up more stock than they ever had before and amass an even greater hold on global wealth.

I've read this book before.

[Augustinian monk]

Yeah, oldest play in the book. See the Rothchilds.