Economic Warfare

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Heh, if there's any conspiracy, it's more than likely among the potential 'victims' themselves. Investment banks profit unimaginably from the current circumstances, for all that those circumstances could potentially wreck them and everyone else on the planet who doesn't live in a mud hut. But that isn't to say that a conspiracy to purposefully cause massive financial damage couldn't exist.

Effects on the boardroom was only one consequence of stock price that I mentioned. Besides the others I brought up, there's another facet--the companies who trade on those stock prices. A bear raid intended to cause financial damage does not necessarily have to damage the company being raided in order to be successful.