We’ve certainly have heard much about the Deep State. One way to approach an examination of its influence is too look at whether or not there are major financial or political players that can move markets either through connected and prominent investment banking organizations, the Federal Reserve Bank, or other compromised governmental or quasi-governmental bodies.
We cannot go into a detailed report here, but there is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that markets are not entirely free-trading but are manipulated. This, either to enrich the major investment banking organizations and well-connected hedge funds, or to create crises in the economy to serve political purposes.
To boil this down to the question at hand, could the Deep State become sufficiently at odds with the Trump administration to take down the equity and bond markets thereby throwing the nation into an economic crisis? That part of the “Deep State” that leads the mainstream media would immediately blame the financial crash on the president. This would clearly tank his ratings and cause the Democrats and weak-kneed Republicans to pile on President Trump.
It’s an insidious theory, and one we can neither either verify nor dispel. The nature of the thing is such that average citizens can only get a glimpse of what’s going on. We are then left with a puzzle where over half the pieces are missing.
Long-time silver investor David Morgan was recently interviewed by Greg Hunter of USA Watchdog. He suggested the possibility of just such a scenario:
On the success of President Trump and the ongoing war with the so-called “Deep State,” Morgan contends, “If the “Deep State” gets pushed into a corner much further, they can basically pull the plug. That means the stock market could come tumbling down, and then they could blame the Trump Administration. . . . If you are losing the chess game, you just get up and turn the table over and the pieces go flying everywhere. That is a metaphor for a war. That’s a metaphor for crashing the stock market. That’s a metaphor for crashing the bond market, and it’s a metaphor for it happening on its own. I am concerned that if you win, you lose. This is why the unraveling is being done extremely carefully. . . . I am not saying it is going to happen. I am saying it could happen. These people are so used to winning a rigged game, if they start being caught, and they have been caught, then they are going to do things that are not necessarily predictable. They are not going to act in a rational manner. They are going to do anything possible to protect themselves. You cannot rule out the possibility that they will turn the table over and that’s it.”
This is where we are in agreement with Morgan. And we agree with his statement that we cannot know for sure what will happen. “I am not saying it is going to happen. I am saying it could happen.”
You bet it could. If President Trump antagonizes the Wall Street banking institutions, the Federal Reserve Bank, elements with the intelligence community, and power-brokers in other major financial entities — in other words, the Deep State — they would have no moral compunction against sending the US markets and economy into a severe downturn in an effort to neuter the president.
They likely could do this. The question is whether matters have come to a point where the Deep State would launch such an attack.
The wise would be aware that such a perfidious act might be launched, and how it would impact each of us.
Source: USA Watchdog
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I’ve been thinking of just this possibility for some time. Wipe out Americans’ money, and they will turn on whomever is thought to be to blame.
–The first question that must be asked and answered is whether such a thing as the “Deep State” exists.
I must delete all this. Of course everyone believes it exists, has been talked about for so many years, Trump calls it out. We would see to naive to post such a thing