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Pushing down assets is deflationary because nobody has money to spend, therefore they will get a good rate on their gov debt refinancing by the end of the year. That's what I heard.
And that makes as much sense as destroying your house to save on insurance
Least the bank won't take your house.
All theories on this sound reasonable, but I still think Trump isn't playing some 4D chess game, I think he is just dumb.
Just got to be president of United States through being dumb. Life is just Hollywood films 😅