It’s funny how market economy only works, if the people in power happen to profit from it, otherwise it requires regulation that puts more money into these people’s pockets.

This “problem” is as old as the economy. Grain comes in during harvest season and all at once, demand is relatively steady over the year. So people invented silos and merchants gained profits from arbitrage by buying during harvest and selling over the next months. This is not a new problem at all.