This is quite a post. I understand what you mean when you say to many coincidences to believe they are just that and not conspiracies. This is what keeps conspioracy theories alive, the grains or sometimes pounds of truth they contain.
Modern higher finance is seeming all about creating money out of thin air to deposit in your own corporate coffers and pay yourself a astronomical salary for creating corportae profits. But all on paper.
Produce nothing, but earn unlimited monies, and break the system.