The problem with this theory is that if you flood the market with gold, the price would drop correspondingly -- to maybe a $1/once. That said, mining asteroids is a great idea for rare minerals!
We've heard a lot about the electric crisis in Nashville. But there are still ~25,000 people without power two weeks after the storm in northern Mississippi! The worst is in Lafayette County (in the center of the outages) with about 5,000 people without power. In Tennessee, all but about 400 people have their power back on.