Hedge Funds' Massive Bet On Stock Market Crash Raises Alarm For 401(k)s - And Risks Ire Of Trump

Hedge funds' massive bet on stock market crash raises alarm for 401(k)s - and risks ire of Trump

By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 18:03 AEDT, 1 February 2025 | Updated: 03:04 AEDT, 2 February 2025

Hedge funds are making a multi-billion-dollar gamble against the US economy, betting Donald Trump's presidency will result in a massive market crash that could devastate 401(k)s, pensions, and household savings across America.

Data from Goldman Sachs has sent shockwaves through financial circles, revealing a dramatic surge in 'short' positions against US stocks - a move that signals a belief the market is headed for a precipitous crash.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14348965/Hedge-funds-massive-bet-stock-market-crash-raises-alarm.html

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Let's say that the WEF would really like us, "To own nothing and be happy."

This could be achieved several ways, via hyperinflation or war or another "Great Depression".

I would have a convenient bogieman declare war, like our little friend Russia and have them stomp Europe. Moving to a "war economy" will be highly inflationary and with the break down of Globalism stuff will become scarce. (More inflation on top of inflation.)

A credit crisis would trigger a "Sovereign default". This would involve fleecing the investor class of their money.
It doesn't matter if you make $100,000 or $1,000,000 a year, if a loaf of bread is $50,000.

And let's face it...

People will be happy because they'll be able to live digital lives, where AI makes them more productive to earn their UBI after everything has gone to poo!

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... via hyperinflation or war or another "Great Depression".

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People will be happy because they'll be able to live digital lives

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More Banking Deregulations, Brought To You (AND Me) By D.J. TrumpCo...

https://gfmag.com/economics-policy-regulation/trump-banking-financial-cryptocurrency-deregulation/

Donald Trump hates government regulation of private business. In his successful campaign for re-election, he promised to repeal 10 US federal regulations for every new one imposed, adding, “We’ll be able to do that quite easily.” He has recruited billionaire backers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to head a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).


Banks and the broader financial industry hope to be prime beneficiaries. “A lot of bankers are dancing in the streets” at the promise of deregulation, Jamie Dimon, CEO of industry giant JPMorgan Chase, commented days after the election.


US banking laws tend to be written in broad terms, leaving an array of regulators ample scope to interpret and enforce the specifics. So, it might look easy for an incoming president like Trump to overhaul the rules of the game.


“A lot can happen on Day One,” says Max Bonici, a partner advising financial institutions at law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. “They can make a very fast start reversing the regulatory ecosystem that the Biden Administration built.”


But as the clock ticks toward Trump’s January 20 inauguration, specifics remain elusive.


“Is anything clear yet?” Christopher Wolfe, who oversees US banks for Fitch Ratings, asks rhetorically. “No is the short answer.”


And the existing ecosystem may not be so easy to get rid of.


President Joe Biden did accelerate the “regulatory supercycle” that started with the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Offering an example is Gene Ludwig, who served as comptroller of the currency, a top Treasury Department regulatory post, in the 1990s, and now consults with the industry.


For President Bill Clinton, Ludwig wrote an 11-page regulation for a fair-lending statute, the Community Reinvestment Act. The Biden Administration added an “extension” that ran to 115 pages. “Regulations grow up like barnacles on a ship,” Ludwig observes. “Periodically, you need to scrape them so the ship doesn’t sink.”

:coffeetime:We're all here :typing: because we're not all there �:transmit:~~ We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names and all are different colors, but they all live

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Yep. Let's get the bets down now. I'm betting on hyperinflation, then great depression, and then a nice, big war to recover. As in US history in 1920's, 1930's and then 1940's.

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Digital lives won't buy any pizza or beer. As soon as the beer, smokes, and weed run out the riots will start.

Now... has Trump mentioned having his own private police force yet? Like the Schutzstaffel?

Julius Caesar

"You too Brutus?"

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More Banking Deregulations, Brought To You (AND Me) By D.J. TrumpCo...

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huehuehue, the peasents are grumbling and trying to make sense of it all

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huehuehue, the peasents are grumbling and trying to make sense of it all

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life is pretty sweet

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I resolved my the issue with the unhappy neighbour, he kept wanting to spray my weeds and I told him the truth...

Weed killer is poisonous and according to a buddy of mine you can't use it during the wet season because it's hot and everyone including him has all his doors open... Because it's hot.

Also my buddy says, "If the wind picks up you can blow a poison cloud all over the place."

I should point out that the "Wet Season" always has wind blowing, (It's cyclone season...) The council does it all the time but only during the "Dry Season". My buddy wanted to do it at 5 am on a still day and have everyone in the complex stay home and shut their doors and windows for 3 days.

My buddy is a gardening enthusiast and uses weed killer all the time. I'm like, "Seriously? A cloud of a schedule 7 poison??? Fuck!@!" I poo pooed the idea last April, but the unhappy neighbour still wants to spray.

The unhappy neighbour can spray if he wants, I told him to notify the other neighbours. I can't use the weed killer because due to being schizo, I'm not a "Fit and Proper person of sound mind" under the law. Also root getting done for "Criminal Negligence" at best and "Murder" at worst should there be a screw up... But the unhappy neighbour settled for just weed whacking the weeds, so it's a quick and easy fix.

My buddy says, "I can go stay with him whenever I want." So I'll lock up my unit and close the windows and run off up the road for a week as soon as the unhappy neighbour decides to spray.

The unhappy neighbour is a good person and neighbour, but he doesn't think things through. Like Bruce Lee said, "When there's trouble, don't be there."

Everyone seems to be a better mood now that his issue is resolved. Although the unhappy neighbour has pointed out that the his other neighbour has weeds the same as mine and for longer...

All in all it's a good result.

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Here's more grumbling.

The unhappy neighbour wanted to punch my head a couple of months ago over something he did and keeps asking for favours like borrowing things. He returns them, but he keeps trying to make his problems my problems.

I was sick of him a few weeks ago and having being told inadvertently people are being paid to be my friends by really reliable people. A buddy thought it was odd but it makes perfect sense given my history.

I suspected the herpy harpy followed me here to Mareeba months ago and now it seems like she plans to use the unhappy neighbour to bug me into leaving my Department of Housing unit like dumb and dumber did.

What a shitshow... But I expect that from her.

She probably already knows the unhappy neighbour wants to leave here to go be with his family just down the road and to be honest I think it would be for the best.

I have a really great buddy who would like a Department of Housing unit and my buddy gets along with everybody.

I remember when I lived in Bargo south west of Sydney and how I wanted a caravan with a toilet and one became available.

I'm not saying the unhappy neighbour should suffer the full wrath of the harpy and her cronies.

I just think everyone and especially me would benefit from the unhappy neighbour just going where he wants to live.

I would be really pleased if the unhappy neighbour left, he'd be happier, his family would be happier and my buddy would be happier too!

Spread the happiness Ms Potatohead for once in your miserable life of being horrible. The good cop/bad cop routine has run it's course.

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Rats! Boohoohoo, profound sadness...

My buddy wants to live in Port Douglas or Mossman.

My buddy is nostalgic about Port Douglas, but it's a yuppie town with ridiculously priced real estate. So, it comes as no surprise to me that there's little in the way of public housing there!

My buddy "feels" more supported in Mossman, due to getting free food from the food bank and other services at the neighbourhood centre. My buddy has also mentioned he doesn't like the "Energy" of Mareeba. He's turned down a couple of places here because they weren't ideal. But the unhappy neighbour's place would be good for him, my buddy said "He would've taken my place too if he got offered it!

There is just no pleasing some people... Namely me!

I could go to a buddy's place for the weekend and that would probably give the harpy the opportunity to be actually useful for once in her miserable life.

Sure, she got rid of "Dumb and Dumber", but they were her stooges. Considering the fact she's apparently running around paying people to be useful to her by trying to get dirt on me or affect my life in some small way. By paying them to get close to me.

I'm flabberghasted! Most of Far North Queensland's public housing is in Cairns with quite a few in Mareeba due to it being the FNQ central hub due to it being a great place logistically speaking.

The unhappy neighbour has been trying to go to Atherton for a couple of years and ideally my buddy would be ok with being here and the unhappy neighbour being happy with his living in his preferred place too!

Although the unhappy neighbour is a much lower priority than my buddy.

My cousins probably squeezed the Department of Housing for me to get this place and it's an awesome place to be. But I don't really have much of a social life here, although that just means I'm online more.

Sadly my buddy turned down a pensioner unit in Mossman in 2023, he said, "No, it's too expensive. I won't be able to afford $15,100 of beer and weed every year!”

It may be that the Department of Housing has already put him in the "Too hard!" bucket. It would probably be easier for him to get a park owned caravan in the caravan park he's living in. But he’d need to figure out a way to get a bed, couch/recliner/other chairs, and all the other things needed for a home…

The thing is, my buddy is buddies with the owner of the caravan park. So he’s in a really great place as far as freedom goes, because the manager will just complain about him over liability issues and basically leave him alone with the other hippies there!

My buddy’s biggest complaint is his Coaster sinking in the mud, but apart from that. If he could downsize to a van, (Ideally a Kombi!) he probably wouldn’t want housing…

As for the unhappy neighbour, he doesn’t really matter. I was thrilled to sacrifice him for my buddy, but “If” the buddy doesn’t want to live here... There’s not much I can do, except continue to avoid the unhappy neighbour until he figures out his life won’t change for the better until he changes to attract the sort of people that can help him by pushing him into fixing his many problems.

The unhappy neighbour tends to attract unwanted attention to our local “Den of Iniquity” next door to us. He’s definitely not the sharpest knife in the block, and people who think all their problems can be resolved by throwing hands tend to get what they seem to want… Which is more problems.

Who knows, even if the harpy sat this one out, the local hood rats might give the unhappy neighbour a lot a grief just because they want to out of their own volition…

I have no idea, but it’s not my problem. So I don’t care.