https://www.businessinsider.com/china-xi-jinping-growing-threat-world-economy-stock-market-crash-2022-10

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    The only thing that's being ratcheted is the Consent Manufacturing lever.

    Media is trying to scare all the institutional investors out of Beijing's financial pool.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Institutional investors literally never listen to the media though. I've only ever seen media affect retail.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        Idk about that. People responded to COVID, to Ukraine, and to 9/11 clearly enough.

        All those business channels aren't just for hosts to jerk themselves off. My firm's O&G trading floor has business news running all day long. And they're trading hundreds of millions in product monthly.