With his billionaire boys right on hand to pick up the firesale pieces..and rebuild in their own image.
They already speculated on the Bulwark that when it’s all said and done Chinese companies was gonna buy up all these mid sized businesses outright.
For example Nike makes shoes in China but they own the design and brand. They can’t get the shoes or it costs way more then Nike either floats bonds or sells stock which some Chinese company gets a controlling interest or they literally just offer to buy the whole thing outright.
Back in the 80’s they accused Japan of trying to buy up US brands and to this day they own more US debt and dollars per capita than anyone.
They decide to sell their US debt in coordination with China and Hello Great Depression.
That’s literally the only thing stopping them.
In the Big Short a couple of
speculators not monied institutions almost shorted the majority of US housing market.