trump is playing the market. deliberately tanking it so he can make money on the rebound.
He has now 3 separate times in the last 6 weeks done the on again off again tariff thing, each time the market tanks then rebounds.
If you know for certain it's coming back and don't care who get creamed in the process it's the perfect way to make money with almost no effort.
no but people can accuse the left with the motive of syncronized sabotage, which is why they made those unusual suspicious soon emploding comments (as they know the plan in place).
HOWEVER, What's happening in the market is the natural process of correction in a long lived overheated market that never had it's full healthy correction for the last 2 or more years.
When some stocks are up 100% and spwculative ones many times that have 20 years before they make money=bubble bursting, and the Vix being traded a fake money non existing coins just makes it more risky and unstable. It's a buying opportunity when we fully correct and going into spring summer people always take some profits for vacation and spending money while traders subside also away from their trading on that vacation. Hence "May Go away" which sometimes ends up as early as March & April, which as I expected occured this year because we were way ahead of ourselves in the market, like Buffet said, there were a lack of sound priced stocks to dip into, everything was were you sell not where you buy.
Example: NVDA fair value would be 110.
Which is where it keeps bouncing back from during this correction, because the pros / buyers knew this. NVDa was up over 100% where else would it go but back down to earth. You might Blame that China Co and or blame Trump Tariffs, but reality is blame the run up past it's actual value, people were playing musical chairs with the stock price like they did with bitcoin and that stock took down the market along with the no profit speculative quantum computing cos. and Buffet's honest expression that "there's nothing left to buy"-well we all thought that, but you're just not supposed to say that part out loud unless you are doing it to help the reversal so there are stocks to buy.
the poor Cd and bank rates are not an option.
Probably why we over ran the market:
the many CD's being called via lowering rates, and lack of good bond rates forced people into the market.