Yes, and that is where a guy named Soros made his billions.
Read Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor." It shows how it can be done in modern warfare.
If there are enough scum at the big brokerage firms... and they are controlling the algorithims (and making bets on FAILURE of the stock market) they not only can crash it, but make tens of billions in the failure. While wiping out all your 401K's and retirement savings and other assets... which they don't care about. Because they made billions on your suffering
The idea of a recession to affect an election is not new. It happened in 1992... when GHWB was at 90 percent popularity after the Gulf War. And, arguably, again in 2008 when a letter from Chuck Schumer saying that bank failures and mortgage failures were about to hit (look it up, Sept 2008)... set up the economy for McCain to get slaughtered and Obama to win. It was supposed to be Hillary, BTW.
Weaponizing the economy is childs play. And with today's huge firms that can 'win' during times of loss... is almost inevitable if the leaders of those firms are committed to an ideology. You know, like the kind that gives 600M to the Hillary campaign while opposing Orange Man.
This is why Tucker's earlier post about the Dems Mantra about recession is right on. Many of us have been predicting this since the 2018 mid-terms. And it's ramping up.
The only thing preventing things so far is that if people think it's engineered... it likely doesn't work.
Sirhr