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    13 days ago

    What will be extremely funny is if the market drops so fast that the ‘circuit breakers’ get triggered.

    Basically, the SP500, the DJIA… most modern exhanges have rulesets that say if a particular stock… or entire market… drop too much, too fast, trading on them is then just ended, for the rest of the day… I think there are some theoretical scenarios where the trading pauses can last more than a day.

    If that manages to happen… Trump will have literally broken the markets.

    Seeing as I don’t have a 401k: This would be extremely funny.

    Even if the markets don’t crash that fast…

    We are looking like we will have such massive drops in so many stocks over… the past few months, and likely next week…

    Well… a lot of companies … finance a lot of their operations with debt. Debt based on their shares as collateral. So… when your stock goes down enough… now the lenders want … more stocks, more money, a higher interest rate, whatever is built in to their exact contracts.

    Basically, we’re probably gonna start to see a bunch of people and companies get margin called.

    And that will further intensify panic and general chaos.

    (Elon Musk in particular is extremely likely to be utterly fucked by this kind of scenario)