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the escalating trade war we are engaging in (and losing) with China:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-18/us-futures-plunge-after-trump-...
Also, this is an interesting take, if Trump wants to convince China that his threats are real, he'll have to convince the markets as well, which essentially means that the markets will have to tank for this to work:
"In other words, for Trump's trade negotiations to be successful, and for US trade partners to take a flip-flopping Trump credibly, the market has to crash. Incidentally, this makes sense when one considers that when Trump officially launched the trade war with China in early April, the president explicitly warned that stocks "may take a hit", and told investors to prepare for "pain" in the market, a statement which promptly became a self-fulfilling prophecy and sent the market sharply lower."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-03/goldman-if-trump-wants-win-tra...