Lovely. So what comodities would you prefer? Corn's about the same as in 2011, Copper, Soy etc.
US M1 supply has increased 40 fold since 2011. If that's hiding "real" inflation, why are commodities less than 1/10th of the cost they were 10 years ago?
There have been a number of cases of banks being found guilty of it as well: - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-metals-charges/u-s-ch... - https://www.reuters.com/article/jp-morgan-spoofing-penalty-i...
Look up naked short selling if you want to see how this works. Essentially, futures markets allow trading gold without holding any physical gold so banks can take dollars and use that to short the price of gold. It has gotten to the point where more “paper gold” is bought and sold on futures markets than physical gold that exists in the world.