[Gaffer]

He doesn’t want growth. Growth to him is a roadblock in implementing his plan. Fomenting unhappiness and unrest with the viable voting masses (i.e., Democrats, liberals, fascists, marxists, communists, illegals and those of ethnic persuasion). He needs to rouse these people to riot and to cry out for ‘more change’. The end result he is seeking is total domination and confiscation of all wealth and resulting consolidation of his domination over his new subjects.

[silverleaf]

I think president “I don't pay attention to the stock market” got a lecture by his mentors that the economic goose needs some fattener to lay some more golden eggs to achieve his ends. And the capitalists need a ray of hope to keep being useful tools for a while longer.

Hence the manipulation of the market to show faux growth.