• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Step 1: Sell stocks

    Step 2: Crash the entire economy thru sheer ineptitude

    Step 3: buy stocks, and then let adults recover the economy.

    Repeat as necessary.

    That churn makes a shit ton of money for a shit ton of terrible people.

    Republicans don’t give a shit which way the numbers go as long as they knew it was coming, either way you can “make” money, by exploiting people trying to play the same game without the same insider information.

    Our entire economy is a fucking grift and we need to admit it

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      21 hours ago

      One thing is for sure: the insider traders we may or may not have elected to office are not breaking a sweat.

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      17 hours ago

      I remember the last crash, Dow hit 7,800. People at work were literally crying because their 401K evaporated overnight.

      I was like “Wait, isn’t this a GREAT time to buy?”

      8 years of Obama later…