Tesla - a canary in the mine for the US?
‘But even if Musk himself were not so polarising, the company’s share price has become “completely divorced from the fundamentals”, as a JPMorgan analysis put it barely a month ago. What’s more, the reasons that Tesla’s brand has become so tarnished overlap with the larger decline of America Inc.’
Trump promises tariffs on certain dates driving the markets down. Then he pivots, waffles and delays. This, of course, drives markets back up.
What he’s doing is an illegal form of market manipulation to enrich himself and his rich friends.
absolutely breathtaking chart that shows the price of #bitcoin is net **down** ~10% during market hours when #Blackrock’s bitcoin ETF etc. were traded in 2025 but net **up** ~40% during hours when the american financial markets are closed.
makes a compelling case that the offshore (**cough** Chinese **cough**) exchanges are wash trading the price of #BTC up every night and then selling off into American retail investors (though there's probably also other factors at play, like the enthusiasm for people living in different time zones to plow money into the cryptoverse).
chart from r/buttcoin: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/1i9z93j/evidence_of_bitcoin_wash_trading/
Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets - Enlarge (credit: apomares | E+)
A jury has unanimously convict... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2018659 #cryptocurrencymarkets #cryptocurrencyscam #marketmanipulation #cryptocurrency #priceinflation #mangomarkets #cryptoscam #mangolabs #policy
Financial markets are the engines of national economies, but market manipulation threatens their stability. Join me as we explore the pump-and-dump scheme and the dangers it poses to investors.
