I worked in finance for awhile… it seems more plausible to me that a crash would provide the pretext for the feds to begin ‘protecting investors’ by mandating a certain percentage of investors be in ‘safe’ investments like (surprise!) US treasuries (at least for the tax-benefit retirement vehicles like 401k, 403b, IRA’s etc).
It’s like social securitizing the some 18 tril in private retirement thats floatin out there just taunting the thieves…