Are you kidding? A roller coaster stock market for those behind the scenes is as good as winning the lottery! Get everybody all excited with juiced up economic numbers, sell your stocks on the crest, then create turmoil with trade disputes, fabricated fears, stocks go down. Go on a buying spree, settle everything, get the good news out and they sail back up so you can sell and reap the profits. Thump loves buying in a distressed market, he announced that back in 2008.

That would be most unpopular with his 'investment' pals, not to mention his own shares.