General Discussion

And that's about a billion on the New York exchange alone, even with "the oligarchs and the rich" scheming around, there are an awful lot of ordinary people around the world just trying their hand at day trading and long term investing--a few million per day, I suspect. I can well imagine that individuals who are well-placed in certain industries and commodities (oil, eg) or finite physical investments (gold, Palladium, etc.), as well as central banks, who control thousands of tons of gold, and who can skew certain markets for limited amounts of time, but not forever. There are just too many other players.

I, for one, would prefer the markets do not respond at all to Trump's ravings. To a sociopath who craves attention, the greatest punishment of all is to deny it to him completely. I think a day when the news of the world does not mention his name once, anywhere, would be like the day he was denied oxygen.