By removing all the safeguards to the markets.
Simple:
1- Repeal Glass-Stegal - allow otherwise risk adverse banks to engage in risky behavior
2- Force banks by court order to lend to people with bad/no credit at rates they can not afford making the housing market go crazy (gee, I wonder who was behind that.... Who did Freddie and Fannie give all their lobby dollars to anyway?)
3- Put in the Mark to Market Rule that forces evaluations of securities and derivatives based upon arbitrary measures that force their value down in most circumstances.
4- Loosen oversight of banks, credit agencies and mortgage companies.
5- And the final blow: Repeal the Uptick Rule which allows naked short selling and allows certain investors to force the markets down to make insane amounts of money. Exactly 90 days after the repeal of the Uptick Rule the market went into a tail spin from which it has never recovered. Why 90 days? Because that is the most common length of contracts.
Wonder why the market went up last week? Because they said they were going to put the Uptick Rule back into place. No more naked short selling. The same day.... ten minutes later... the markets began to rise.... and have kept rising. Coincidence? Un-huh, yeah.... coincidence is one of those things I do not believe in much.
Is it a conspiracy? doubtful They aren't smart enough to do that.
Incompetency? Greed? Stupidity? Take your pick, you decide...
What does this have to do with the thread, ammo, THR and gun rights? Everything... nothing. You decide.
All I know is that my country is now an extra $2,000,000,000,000 in debt and we have nothing, absolutely nothing to show for it. Except more social programs. Anybody else feel betrayed?