Since 2020 the democrats have been campaigning on making people's lives worse. More foreign spending, more war, more inflation, banning inexpensive cars, banning gas stoves, more environmental doomerism. What is there to get excited about?
It is the end of the month, they probably were going to move it anyway. The limousine liberals in Target Corporate don't care if they ride the stock price into the ground. It means more incentive shares for them in the short term, and they assume we will forget about this in a few weeks.
And don't forget "freeze spending" in government terms means to limit the rate of growth on discretionary items to the base growth rate. Entitlements, medicare, ObamaCare, freebies to Democrat front groups, and other 'mandatory' spending will continue to go up.
The plan is working. Their long-term plan is to steal retirement savings by convincing people that the market is 'too risky' for unaccredited investors. They will then swoop in and force all retirement account funds to be "invested" in government bonds. It will start off voluntarily, with slightly above market rates, or issue discounts, in order to incent people to take the plunge. When that doesn't get enough of the multi-trillion dollar retirement savings market in the federal coffers, they will make it compulsory.
Of course, political and other elites will be 'accredited' so that they can invest in the market, and won't see their savings eaten away by inflation.
I'll just leave this here too...
https://commonreader.wustl.edu/how-a-company-called-blackrock-shapes-your-news-your-life-our-future/
So teenage hormones started being a thing in the late 60s? I'm sure it has nothing to do with modern media encouraging everyone to indulge in their baser instincts.