especially when your raised under a system that essentially tries to brainwash you via weaponized propaganda from birth (applies to large cross-sections of the US/UK), all it takes is one shed of truth getting through to shatter your world and from there you can get brought to believe all manner of crazy shit.

anything tied to the PA, loans included, are at risk when PA collapses. now, this is why tesla is propped up.

ultimately, PA is determined by whoever has the most $ to move around (and lowest entry/cost) between themselves

with forced buying/selling via options, and some sort of regular liquidity injection to maneuver around, it is very easy to control something that noone else is actually buying. index funds are required to allot some money to every ticker in X index, ans the overwhelming majority of $ being movdd around is via index funds.

there’s a whole wing of fintech designed around artificially inflating the price of companies right before inclusion in a big index, so they can “dump” on index funds that have to buy

there are so sooo many levels to shit, it really is the most convoluted predatory casino imagined, where 2 things are rewarded above all else…knowledge (of the underlying fundemental value) and greed. when your greed outpaces your knowledge is when people start blowing up accounts.

i just assumed it was the Doctor ranting at someone at the end of an episode

coordinated trades to manipulate price action is one very big and common aspect to the casino, yes. but ultimately that number means nothing unless there’s actually the liquidity at that level for you to exit your position at a profit (in order to buy in on something else trading low) or you have a position in that stock to trade on margin elsewhere.

via unique aspects to how US options work, there is a lot of forced buying/selling going on at any time on most tickers

this is why the powers that be are trying in vain to prop up the wider market, US is most over-leveraged market in the world…when the music stops (liquidity tap closed)…anyone without a chair (not utilizing proper risk management) gets forced to sell, frequently at a heavy discount, as their margin evaporates

honestly, the fact the game is rigged actually makes making $ easier than ever with just an amateur level of understanding (though there’s a limit to “scalping volatility”, eventually you make waves big enough to become the liquidity others are trying to extract) but, the fed’s liquidity injections only go so far. ultimately there are no friends on wallstreet/bankstreet, it’s a zero sum game and nobody leaves any $ on the table for anyone else if they can help it.

i will admit to not knowing the full scope of how that fed monopoly $ is moved around (that’s mostly through the banks iirc), but i do know someone/s out there is 100% trying to hunt that liquidity down for themselves somehow.

there are various rule differences between the US and most other world’s markets that when you look at them from a high-level they can be determined to exist for only one reason…to “facilitate liquidity/volatility”, to make the casino exciting. the rest of world cracked down on the worst examples after 2000-08, but the US left em for shits and giggles.

just an fyi to anyone without knowledge of the finance industry, all the big indexes and shit are dominated by various algos unless there’s a 10% move down.

overwhelming majority of “X does Y because Z” articles you see out there are just building a narrative after something has moved because it’s one giant casino, but the powers that be need people to trade otherwise there’s no liquidity to extract. combine that with short-selling (selling things you don’t know) and this is where “sell the news” comes from

so, X drops a bunch for whothefuckknows…push out fearmongering stories it’s because of (insert disaster) to get people who don’t know any better to sell when they see their retirement accounts down some big figure. or…when your the one running the US…create your own disasters

the US mostly self sufficient with oil, big oil wants this war so they can make extra stupid money gaming the oil futures markets.

once you’ve reached end-stage capitalism, where there’s no real room for organic growth, all that’s left is rent-seeking and smashing windows to “increase liquidity” in the markets (from sane/smart actors who have to hedge, even if they do know it’s all a game). the ones who don’t see the full picture or are over-leveraged go out of business and act as distressed assets to be bought out by established players.

this is what republicans do every time they’re in power, they’re abject disaster capitalists, proud in their cruelty.

been awhile since i watched V for Vendetta, i remember it as basically just The Purge with accents and a little more monologuing

the majority of americans are living paycheck to paycheck, give them financial relief/save them time (force move to some 6hr/4day standard workweek) and you win any election.

this is why poors vote R…R’s say they’ll give financial relief while D’s promisise “economic stability” which doesn’t mean shit to the 50%+ of the country living paycheck to paycheck.

it doesn’t matter that R’s are lying through their teeth (and fucking them through a dozen sources of CoL increases)…one offers hope the other offers more of the same. when your on the bottom “more of the same” is still a boot on your neck, doesn’t matter what color it is.

wanton violence doesn’t really work, this has been tried before. you need precise and well thought out violence. last i bothered to check, something like 70-80% of the $ behind far-right america comes from like <20 people (<100 if you extrapolate that out to the world).

CNN was bought out by a trump loyalist years ago, but their reporting has been shit for ages. all mainstream US media has been compromised for decades at this point.

gotta love completely arbitrary made-up numbers when it comes to these “debates” too. hell, I would hazard to guess that the US’s godawful for-profit/ratfucking galore healthcare system kills far more than that through sheer negligence (denying claims, general expense detering use, deadly conditions that could get caught/managed early with proper proactice healthcare instead reactive (which is more lucrative), people being to afraid to call an ambulance, the list goes on).

all lives that could be saved by ditching it for some single payer/universal system, call out all these parasitic middlemen.

just that, I like my enemies out in the open

some people complain this comes out every time R’s are in power, like it somehow doesn’t exist when D’s are. personally, i prefer my enemies feeling comfortable enough to take their masks off (edit) because it lets me know who they are.

also lack of stress from overworking…

this is their goal, they’re trying to collapse the US economy. disaster capitalism is all that’s left when all other fields are taken/captured by effective monopolies. there’s no room for organic growth, just smashing shit to the ground and buying up distressed assets on the cheap

we have done this boom/bust cycle many times now

because republicans are disaster capitalists, and neoliberals capitalists smart enough to know what that implies when they’re in power. they’re trying to crash the economy so they can buy distressed assets on the cheap when it crumbles.

then once it crashes the old guard will come out of the woodwork and play damage control after the fact, pinning everything on trump/his sycophants. pretending like this isn’t the same old game of boom/bust they’ve been playing for generations

the only difference between republicans qnd neolibs is neolibs like to keep the veneer of fair play, so there isn’t blood in the streets when it’s time for the dump cycle. they are otherwise on the same team with their fellow capitalists.

no even counting her husband too, there’s trade trackers for all these motherfuckers. pelosi’s are barely even in the top 10

Pelosi isnt even the top 10% of grifters in congress using their position to inside trafe

it’s honestly surprises me how little thought goes into the average attempt at violence