"I doubt they have even a 10% success rate in creating from scratch and maintaining a conspiracy like event."

Lions on the Serengeti have a success rate. Not all of their attempts to take prey succeed. Most of the time they fail. They only need to succeed once a week or so.

The same with financial predators. It's like investing in ICOs. When a successful ICO produces several orders of magnitude gains, it becomes simply a numbers game, and investing in every ICO results in profit when but one percent of investments actually pans out.

The news is full of failed ops that are attempts to manufacture profitable business opportunities. They only need to succeed once a generation, and can fail an unlimited number of times between successes.

it's a numbers game in that regard.