Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain view.
The things that brought us to where we are now politically and financially aren't by chance. It's been well orchestrated over the past 100 years or so. For example, the systematic dumbing down of the population has been very well documented in several books, including The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt. I think it's available now on the net for free. Read it. It's a real eye opener. Similarly, the so-called "uptick rule" was relaxed 15 months before the last election and that allowed the market to be shorted into oblivion. This was clearly done to foster chaos in the markets and make them unstable. There is no other explanation for the removal of the uptick rule. The uptick rule had been in place since 1938 and had worked well to help stabilize the market. There are more examples that I can possible cite here, but these are two good examples.
Yale and Harvard grads are an incestuous little group that has a majority grip on the reigns of power, not through anything nefarious, or anything secret; just that they think they are ‘the best’, and anybody who graduated from the same schools as them is similarly ‘the best’. Once this sort of thing gets started it tends to self-perpetuate.
No need to invoke a conspiracy. It isn't secret, there is no need to keep it secret. It isn't a conspiracy, it is called “networking”.