Rather find an industry that uses a lot of subsidiary industries, like cars or airplanes. Have GM and/or Ford folding in the 60ies or 70ies and you'll have a recession that will become a depression.Hmm. There are resources besides oil to consider.
For example, how about... steel. Okay, unlikely, but in theory, if one flooded the steel market, you could cause a domino effect, as lots of industries obviously use steel.
Rather find an industry that uses a lot of subsidiary industries, like cars or airplanes. Have GM and/or Ford folding in the 60ies or 70ies and you'll have a recession that will become a depression.
I never said it would be easy, I'm just saying what would strike at the USA economy the hardest.How do you think the Soviets would go about this? The key to the whole flooding the market plan would be to build up a stockpile of the product you're trying to devalue. AFAIK, the Soviets never made any cars worth anything (although I could be wrong, I'm not a car guy), so they'd have to buy up American/German/Japanese cars. That could get REALLY expensive. Where would the resources come from?
Soviet front groups buying stocks and real estate in the US? Jeesh, even if they did get the hard currency for that kind of foreign transaction, it would be impossible to keep someone from figuring out that the money traces it's way back to Moscow.