That could make it worse. What you’ve described are really just derivatives, which brought down the economy in 2008. An infinite number of bets on a finite amount of resources.

Think about it like going to the horse racetrack. Nothing stopping anyone from betting $40 billion on a few horses. Win or lose, a ton of instability will occur once they either need to come up with $40 billion to cover their losses or have someone pay them $40 billion for their winnings.