### Comment:
One doesn't have to have 1-2T of liquid assets. If I were the PPT, I would just buy up a whole ton of futures contracts. That gives me about 10-20x leverage depending on the contract. I could slowly dump them over time, and the PPT would also have access to a considerable amount of margin you wouldn't have 
  
 &amp;#x200B; 
  
 tl;dr; the government has plenty of tools to manipulate the markets if it wants to, which ordinary people don't have

### REPLY:
True, but I always thought the PPT was individual investors using their personal capital at the direction of the government. If it’s government money propping up the markets, that’s no different than quantitative easing (which we know has pretty harsh side effects). Idk, we’ll probably never know exactly how it works.

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