The word is regulatory capture, and the game is upwards wealth transfer.

I imagine this should count as illegal stock market manipulation, but the government would be too in on the scam to prosecute it.

FTFY

This is the government's favourite sport. What do you think all the tariff announcements and later withdrawals are doing?

The MAGA government will get in on it. Trump will probably make some kind of ridiculous statement to kick off the plunge, so they can all profit on the slide, and rebuy at the bottom, and recycle the bubble.

The government did it itself just way bigger.

They’d probably encourage it