I thought it would be best to start a new thread on this. It's from John Smith (couldn't find his bio on their site) writing about the state of the economy.
Sourcehttps://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/j...ars-2-economy/
Talks mostly about the issues with the trading post, the mysitc forge material dump and the karma exploit, along with some graphs at the bottom showing some character data.