Did Spooks Spook the Market? Economic Warfare and Market Sabotage
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Show Summary: After months of steady gains, the markets took a dive last week. Something about it all didn’t seem quite right. Right in the middle of the FBI memos exposing the Deep State? How convenient. Pundits blamed “robo-traders” and “market corrections.” But was it all just normal market volatility? Or could it have been manipulated? And if so, by whom? Because here’s the thing: economic warfare and market sabotage has happened before.
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This Week: Just imagine if you had the ability to create panic in the stock market like a precision bomb. You could make a lot of money when the sheep begin to stampede. Last week we had a bumpy ride with the Dow Jones and other markets showing incredible volatility and the timing of it was rather suspicious.
Think about it. President Trump’s approval numbers start to climb. Trump’s new fed chair was officially appointed. CNN points to the stock downcast and that it was all Trump’s fault as they ducked out of Trump’s speech. And, of course, it sure took a lot of heat off the highly revealing Democrat-Russian collusion memos.
Was it just normal market volatility? Or could it have been manipulation? And, if so, by whom? Yes. Because here’s the thing: economic warfare, market manipulation, and even market sabotage have all happened before.
Economic Warfare and Market Sabotage
Remember 2008? It was proven that Russia had manipulated the big sell off on the stock market at that time—which actually had to be forcibly shut down by the government to stop a collapse. The panic that ensued. Then Presidential candidate, John McCain rushing back to Washington.
Long-time listeners of I Spy know that, yes, there was indeed manipulation in our markets in 2008—by Russia. (It might very well have been brought down if the Chinese hadn’t backed out at the last moments.) This was outright economic warfare. And it helped to usher in Obama’s presidency, who just happened to seem rather calm about the whole thing. So was last week’s market volatility was normal or staged?
To figure this out we bring in Kevin Freeman, a world renowned expert on economic warfare and author of, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism brought down the US Stock Market. You’ll hear just how open these systems are to manipulation. We also discuss automatic trading algorithms, “robo-brokers,” that go in and buy and sell when triggers and market conditions are met. And if those are at work behind the scenes, how easily can those be manipulated to cause crashes?
Let’s not forget: George Soros has made an awful lot of money—not when the market goes up, but when it goes down. You don’t think he’d be happy to unleash a little economic warfare and financial terrorism?
Don’t miss our conversation on the dangers, the signs of war, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family’s financial health.
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Links Mentioned
- Kevin’s website is globaleconomicwarfare.com and the article we discussed was “The Winds of War (Part Two)”
- Whistleblower: How Wall Street’s ‘fear gauge’ is being rigged, according to one whistleblower (Market Watch, Feb, 13, 2018)
- Loss aversion: Why we care more about losses than gains (NPR, Oct 25, 2013)
- See also this on loss aversion from Behavioral economics.
- And, if you’re interested in using the notion of loss aversion, see “How ‘loss’ can be a winning strategy” from NeuroMarketing
Additional Links
- Exclusive: Leftist Google Employees Conspire To Undermine Breitbart’s Ad Revenue (Breitbart, Feb 13, 2018)
- WIRED: ‘Inside The Two Years that Shook Facebook – and the World’ (Breitbart, Feb 13, 2018)
- Consumer prices jump much more than forecast, sparking inflation fears (CNBC, Feb 14, 2018)
- Dems vie to win back blue-collar voters in pivotal Pa. race (The Hill, Feb. 14, 2018)
- Ivanka Trump touts business tax cuts in political hotspot (Yahoo News, Feb. 14, 2018)
- Adam Schiff Confirms Democratic Memo Contains ‘Sources and Methods’ (Daily Caller, Feb. 14, 2018)
- Definition of short selling via Investopedia – “Short selling is the sale of a security that is not owned by the seller or that the seller has borrowed. Short selling is motivated by the belief that a security’s price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit.”
- Apple Responds to Hack Threats, Says There Were No iCloud or Apple ID Breaches (Macrumors, March 22, 2017)
- Inside One of the World’s Most Secretive iPhone Factories (Bloomberg, Apr 24, 2016)
- China is using its students and professors at US colleges to SPY on America, FBI Director warns, as it bids to become the world’s dominant superpower (Daily Mail, Feb 14, 2018)