nothingcorporate

Let's say you were a cynical POS who didn't care about anything but enriching yourself. What if you could depress the stock market by doing a dumb thing, and get it to bounce back when you undo that dumb thing?

If you alone knew when you would undo the dumb thing, you could buy stocks low and sell them high because YOU are the one moving the market

Or he's just a Russian agent, who knows.

Because everyone likes an annoying buzz kill, he was actually quoting a universalist minister from a few decades before.