Apropos insight, since China failed to take the debt + trade-war bate and spit an emotional dummy by selling their treasury 'debt instruments' (thereby avoiding making themselves the ready blame target for USD collapse and reset): Brandon Smith: Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-04/brandon-smith-trump-pied-piper-new... … The Fed deliberately created the "Everything Bubble" so that it could be deliberately imploded at the proper time… This is a tactic used by the Fed and the globalists that run it for over 100 years… This process of controlled demolition needs a considerable distraction so that the central banks and the globalists ultimately avoid blame for the painful consequences of the event. * Enter Donald Trump and the false Trump vs. Globalist paradigm. As I mentioned last week, the Fed is only one side of the equation for the crash; Trump is the other side. … To summarize, the "elites" need a patsy for the breakdown of the financial system they have engineered. That patsy will not be Trump per se, but conservatives in general. … What I do know is that triggering a fiscal crisis under the watch of Trump and blaming conservatives is far more useful to the elites than triggering a crisis under Clinton and risk blame falling on international banking syndicates.” … Trump is also currently “advised” by the likes of Steven Mnuchin formerly of Goldman Sachs, Larry Kudlow formerly of the New York Fed, and John Bolton of the CFR, among others.