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eh, your under the misguided notion that everyone involved doesn't know exactly what's happening....every decently large company has an investing/"capital preservation" department for a reason afterall.
this is not the first bubble (whether it's fraud, silicon velley/tech, housing, credit crunch etc.), unless it's someone's first time everyone in the US-business world knows exactly what's about to go down...happens every time the republicans are in power afterall.
I highly recommend reading Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, a sort of tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the stock market written over a century ago. Wallstreet/Bankstreet never change, they just occasionally rebrand
US markets have a purposeful lack of regulation that most of the rest of the world's markets have, all designed specifically to "make it exciting", as well as giving a huge advantage to "people in the know" or whoever has the most $/lowest cost-basis. what's about to go down is essentially a massive game of hot-potato, anyone smart has decent cash position set aside to buy the dips on stuff that isnt shit/riddled in debt.
The tulip bubble is my favourite from history. Fucking tulips lol.
The tulip bubble is over sold as this massive event that caused people to lose everything.
This is story told through a Victorian lense and the story was an exaggeration of the moral bankruptcy. That morphed into the myth of it being financial bankruptcy.
The wealthy elites came out with little harm. It was the middle classes that were hit hardest.