• it’s just so staggeringly stupid like it’s just kicking the can down a bit instead of doing the rational thing: none of this, or the next best thing: using the strategic reserves as strategic reserves to facilitate rationing

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      The market price is everything, the physical reality of the entire world economy is irrelevant, it’s the ultimate commodity fetishism

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      trump, absolutely positive about his own victory, has by constantly lying, faking peace, abusing the trust billionaires had in him and manipulating the market, engineered such a perfectly designed crisis that once past the the point of no return, will blow up the entire global economy and kills millions in the process. you genuinely could not choose a better strategy for maximum destruction.