Read "The High Frontier" by Gerard O'Neil.
Somewhere, out there, there is a huge solid gold asteroid. A remnant of some far off star’s death supernova.
It’s value is incalculable.
If it was dragged to Earth and it’s precious metal was put on the market, it would no longer be ‘precious’ because there would be so much available.
Kind of like the government printing money. As each dollar rolls of the presses, it becomes worth less and less.............