It was clear already a month ago that the tariffs are hidden taxation (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/import-tariffs-to-further-impoverish), but Etienne is pointing out an important corollary: stock-market manipulation. It happens all the time, especially since about 90 percent of trading is between companies owned and/or controlled by the same parties, so computer trading is more than enough. For losers, the remaining 10 percent is there... For the big guys, the tactic of losing a little on one end in order to make a killing on the other is also in play. The petulant display of such power might mean it's too late to do anything before the engineered systemic collapse (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-us-is-a-giant-house-of-cards), while the perps are also openly taunting the victims.
While stocks fell enough to make buyouts possible, the tariff scare also looks like a probe regarding what can be expected in similar situations now that the ownership of the most important assets is settled. The investment game was over already two years ago:
That AIPAC one locks up and us only black screen . They hack you ?
Trump's MAGA was already a psyop (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-maga-psyop). DOGE would require the US government to register as a foreign agent (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-is-doge-doing), and ICE is only icing on the top (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/ice-ing-america)
It was clear already a month ago that the tariffs are hidden taxation (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/import-tariffs-to-further-impoverish), but Etienne is pointing out an important corollary: stock-market manipulation. It happens all the time, especially since about 90 percent of trading is between companies owned and/or controlled by the same parties, so computer trading is more than enough. For losers, the remaining 10 percent is there... For the big guys, the tactic of losing a little on one end in order to make a killing on the other is also in play. The petulant display of such power might mean it's too late to do anything before the engineered systemic collapse (https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-us-is-a-giant-house-of-cards), while the perps are also openly taunting the victims.
While stocks fell enough to make buyouts possible, the tariff scare also looks like a probe regarding what can be expected in similar situations now that the ownership of the most important assets is settled. The investment game was over already two years ago:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-investment-game-is-over