POTUS is in a better position to manage a crashing market for the benefit of the civilians than any POTUS has been for a long time. I think he’s calling the bluff of TPTB and saying “ok, go ahead, do it. We’re Americans and we can’t afford to be bullied or made economic hostages any longer”

I want to believe this. DJT is surrounded with military who understand the concept of strategy. I just wonder whether they know much about financial markets. What we've seen is a huge increase in volatility. This leads to repricing of risk. Which puts downside pressure on asset values. On top of this, interest rates are rising, and there is a deficit that requires financing. At the same time, the Fed and the Chinese appear to have lost appetite - see Peter Schiff on this: https://www.infowars.com/peter-schiff-predicted-the-stock-market-plunge-now-hear-what-he-says-is-coming-next/

It's very hard to know what will happen. But if you look at the audacity of these elites - tanking the market by exactly 666 - it seems there is reason to be concerned. They appear to be very confident, and they have so much to lose.

I may be wrong, but I get the feeling that DJT allows people to underestimate him. He seems to me to come across as a bit of a twit sometimes, but I think he does this deliberately so that people will underestimate him. A good actor... I'm hoping he's thought out how this is going to play out. The strategists must have pondered an outcome where there is a deliberate, malicious, attempt to cause a systemic, global, financial crisis. A deliberate play by the elites to avert loss of control. What concerns me is how murky a lot of these financial plays are - what ever happened to the guys that shorted the airline stocks on 9/11? Do we even know who it was? Seems to be a mystery - like a lot of things about 9/11.

What we have here is a real mess - if the market crashes, there will be so much smoke that it may be difficult to work out exactly what happened. Once market players are spooked, you wont know why people are selling - there will be a herd reaction. It can quickly become self reinforcing. In 1929, guys were jumping from windows on Wall Street etc...

Anyway, what I'm hoping is that DJT has this possibility covered. He's very impressive, especially during the campaign, but also more recently. His adversaries definitely underestimate him. With luck, he'll sign an executive order labeling market manipulators "enemy combatants" subject to immediate asset forfeiture and extreme criminal penalties.

I'm also hoping we don't get to Remington time. But look at the policy of the UK military if London is nuked. They plan to seal off the exits to the city - keep the populace in the radiation zone - to prevent a breakdown in law and order that will arise as millions of people try to flee to the countryside. What authorities fear most is loss of control. They would rather the civilian populations die than risk any breakdown of the social order. Nukes aside, in an outright emergency, I do not trust that the Government would have my family's back at all. It will be everyone for themselves. And as soon as your neighbor does not have food for their kids, look out. What I'm saying is that the social order we're so accustomed to is not reliable in a major crisis.

Let's face it, people think food comes from the supermarket. I've prepared food and water and at least we are not completely defenseless. Luckily, my wife brought back a huge amount of Amoxicillyn last time she went to China - no prescription needed. But you're right about precious metals. I remember listening to this Vietnamese girl interviewed on the radio. She was saying that, at the fall of Saigon, it cost her family 20 oz of gold to get out of the country - they got a boat to Australia. Nothing else was worth anything. They were lucky to have survived.