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He's doing this on purpose so the oligarchs can buy the dip and own even more.
Don't mistake malice for incompetence, or vice versa. Trump is often incompetent, especially in live interactions, his tariff game ain't it, it's part of all he's there for: self-enrichment.
He already called them on and back off once this term to do just that. Calling such moves idiocy instead of a plan to further drain wealth from the many to the pre-informed few plays right into it.
Yet another example of why the capital markets are the bane of human civilization in innumerable ways, undermining and sabotaging entire societies to accelerate short term growth/metastasis.
The capital markets will be destroyed either by the people out of self preservation, or by capital market made climate change after it doesn't matter anymore for humans. I take solace in knowing this con game won't last another century either way, as the tumor of unchecked human greed will destroy its own host if not cut out by force.
Oh, it's much worse than that.
All that park land sold to the wealthy.
USD becomes worthless.
Network states - city states of the rich.
Destroying the central banking system (not bad, but in this context will cause untold death and suffering)
Privatized everything.
Crypto.
The complete dismantling of american hegemony (not a bad thing, necessarily, but to do it by placating Putin is not the way) and financial dominance.
Complete and absolute surveillance. Always. In everything. (X app/starlink)
Christian dominionism. Not just nationalism.
The end of western society.
It's much worse than just markets.
It's Armageddon.
I'd also add not to mistake inadvertence for planned action, or vice versa.
Let's not forget, this was the administration that named the wrong official as acting FBI director and, rather than fixing their mistake, just went with it and let that guy run things for a few weeks.
It could be that they want to tank the markets so that their people can buy things for cheap. But I also wouldn't trust their competence or planning to do it in a way that the cheap thing recovers in value.
People make the comparison to Crassus's fire brigade, where he'd buy homes on the cheap that were already on fire, then use the brigade to put the fire out. But imagine someone who tries to do this with an incompetent fire brigade, where they buy houses on fire and then fail to contain the fires, so that they end up losing even more. That analogy might be more on point with this administration.