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Anna Chen's avatar

My take is that Trump's market chaos is deliberate, a child of Milton Friedman's Shock Doctrine, where disaster makes fortunes for vultures. Charles Schwab's $2.5 BILLION haul made in a couple of days marks the looting ambitions of Trump's supporters who "want it all" (Paul Singer).

In 2011-12, Washington's favourite academic, Niall Ferguson, wrote the template for this strategy of splintering Europe in his Civilisation: Killer Apps TV series. It would "free up" wealth for his bandit mates.

https://www.annachen.co.uk/china/shakedown/niall-ferguson-tv-review/

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Tom Welsh's avatar

If rich people who have devoted their whole lives to fiddling about with financial instruments can get their calculations so wrong, one wonders what they could get right.

Perhaps a critical number of foreigners have ceased to associate "safety" with "USA".

Quite rightly.

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