The author says Bessent has been methodically looking to find who has been shorting Treasury bonds. But, then glosses over the possibility this is the real goal, squeezing the shorts to choke off the DS money machine.
The other underlying assumption in this article is that the Federal Reserve remains part of the monetary system. And, Bessent’s actions are to force the Fed to lower the prime rate.
My hunch is what’s going on is much more complex than even the author understands. The target of all of this is ending the Fed, not crashing the economy.
Superstonk: the ‘orange-man’ censorship happens in one direction only in my observation. Many, many slanderous comments are allowed but the slightest mention of a neutral or positive comment = not allowed.
It is easy enough to filter out, but the signal to noise ratio is outrageous.
The author says Bessent has been methodically looking to find who has been shorting Treasury bonds. But, then glosses over the possibility this is the real goal, squeezing the shorts to choke off the DS money machine.
The other underlying assumption in this article is that the Federal Reserve remains part of the monetary system. And, Bessent’s actions are to force the Fed to lower the prime rate.
My hunch is what’s going on is much more complex than even the author understands. The target of all of this is ending the Fed, not crashing the economy.
Post is from Reddit. He actually got the post deleted for being as political as it was. Even on a semi-neutral sub like superstonk, orange man bad.
Superstonk: the ‘orange-man’ censorship happens in one direction only in my observation. Many, many slanderous comments are allowed but the slightest mention of a neutral or positive comment = not allowed.
It is easy enough to filter out, but the signal to noise ratio is outrageous.
Yes, but they don’t go full tilt OMB, usually, even though a lot of them clearly hate him.
Agree
Interesting GME-sided take on what’s going on with tbond markets, and where today ties in.
Do you have the link for Part 1?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1j2xm2h/comment/mfvmqyd/
Weird, it didn’t come through the archive?
u/queue-anon