I used to do industrial prototype precision sheet metal parts fabrication. I was always buying artificially cheap various metals, and bringing the scrap drop offs to the junk yard. I think the manipulators held them all down for the greater good of manufactured products, especially defense spending material costs.
Lets not forget about jewelers, they need cheap gold for fabrication to keep their retail costs down and profits up. I’ll always be sitting on gold mining stocks, because gold is the end game, currency related. As I said after 2008, people “getting away with unusual things” it would end, starting with Bernie Madoff.
Todays paper the rail road works got nailed real good with false over time hours. One clown cleared $400,000. Like 18 hours a day 7 days a week. Look it up, Newsday LI NY railroad. The other day they arrested a bunch of people importing pregnant woman from Turkey for big money so their baby can be born in the USA. Plus Medicaid PAYED!!
So I think the controllers the banks, the retailers, importers, gov’ts etc and even criminals embezzlers crooked politicians etc are all gradually getting caught and losing their abilities. I think the system is trying to get back to reality, but the transition is a problem. Who knows? Maybe this election was manipulated and Trump winning in 2016 was a big accident and later we find out all the prior ones manipulated also.