A long while ago there was a toy (can't think of its name) but you would hit a projecting puppetlike body down into the games innards and then another one similar to it would pop up somewhere else. As fast as you could smack them down with your mallet another would pop up somewhere else.

The gold market is beginning to resemble this game in that someone tries to smack it down, but in the next second it pops back up again. Just like in the original game you get going faster and faster until you just give up.

I think the mallet wielder in this case is getting very droopy as you suggest.

P.