The Central Planners (and all of us) obviously know approximately how much it costs mining companies to mine an ounce of Gold. If TPTB did NOT suppress Gold, and allowed the natural price of Gold to where it SHOULD go???
The mining companies would make way way way too much money. It would be like a monopoly on “money creation”. They would be like the U.S. Mint, or U.S. Treasury Dept, or the Federal Reserve Banking cartel itself.
Who knows? Maybe bigger than Amazon? Apple?