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The Great Stock Market Conspiracy

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The Great Stock Market Conspiracy

By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law

Make no mistake. The stock market is the root of all power in the world today. The stock market crashes and the global power structure crumbles with it. The US/Israeli war ends if it crashes. To the elite of the world, a stock market crash is worse than an atomic bomb. .

When did the great stock market conspiracy begin? It didn’t. It never “began.” It has been running in plain sight for years, and it is running now. How do I know? Because when you think in the light of reality, it is impossible for it to be anything else. That is the Fantasy Free Advantage. Strip away the illusions and the answer sits there, obvious and unembarrassed.

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Get Rid of Spam in One Day

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Get Rid of Spam in One Day
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

There’s something folks don’t always understand about government. It can make political decisions — and it does. It can also administer justice — not perfectly, but well enough that most people trust the courts more than they trust Congress. You’ll hear complaints about politicians every day of the week, but you don’t hear many people blaming the legal system for the mess we’re in.

Now let’s talk about spam, bots, and the digital junk that clutters every phone and computer in the country. These things aren’t harmless annoyances. They cost all of us time, money, and peace of mind. Entire industries make fortunes trying to shield the public from spam, bots, and hackers. Meanwhile, the people causing the damage pay nothing at all.

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True Human Motivation.

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True Human Motivation
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst Natural Law

Folks, psychologists have cooked up all sorts of fancy ways to explain human nature. That’s their trade, and it keeps the lights on in their offices. I don’t treat patients and I don’t have an income worth bragging about, so I’m not playing on their field. My work is simpler. I teach people how to size up what to expect from others—politicians, broadcasters, billionaires, and the rest of the citizenry trying to stumble through life.

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The Great Advertising Immunity

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032326 The Great Advertising Immunity
By James Quillian — Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

The tech industry has been riding high for a long time, mostly on the back of advertising dollars. For years, the public needed tech more than tech needed the public. That balance has flipped. These days, the tech giants need the population a whole lot more than the population needs them, and they’re not handling the shift with much grace.

For the better part of forty years, the public has been treated as a herd of virtual human beings. Not real people—just anonymous shapes on a spreadsheet. AI has taken that habit and polished it to a shine. You get “no‑reply” emails that take a machine a split second to send, and you can lose half a day trying to fix whatever problem the machine created.

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The Cruelty of Economic Policy

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The Cruelty of Economic Policy
By James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst & Teacher of Natural Law

There’s a special kind of cruelty in modern economic policy, and it isn’t found in the fine print of legislation or the footnotes of a Federal Reserve report. The real cruelty is in the management of public sentiment — the quiet, steady shaping of what folks are allowed to see, hear, and think.

Why manage public sentiment? Why not manage the sentiment of billionaires and the one‑percent crowd? Well now, that’s a good one. You might as well ask a rancher why he doesn’t put blinders on himself instead of the horses.

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Your Punishment for Believing Lies

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Your Punishment for Believing Lies

By James Quillian, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

Folks don’t like to hear it, but I’ve said for years that every lie needs two guilty parties. There’s the fellow who tells it, and then there’s the one who decides the truth just isn’t quite good enough. Without that partnership, most lies would die on the vine.

The trouble is, lies don’t send you a bill right away. The punishment for believing them is suffering, but the suffering doesn’t fall evenly. A man can go his whole life believing a wagon‑load of nonsense and never feel more than a bump. But when the lie is collective—when a whole nation signs on—the pain often shows up in the next generation. They inherit the bill for something they never bought.

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Could AI Be the Edsel of the 2020s?

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Could AI Be the Edsel of the 2020s?
By James Quillian — Economist, Political Analyst, Teacher of Natural Law

The Edsel Lesson We Forgot

In the late 1950s, Ford rolled out the Edsel with more hype than a county fair. It was supposed to be the car of all cars. Ford assumed Americans would line up for it simply because Ford said so.

The public took one look and walked away.

Ford didn’t just lose money. They got a lesson in natural law: you can’t force people to want something they don’t need, don’t trust, and didn’t ask for. No amount of advertising, engineering, or corporate confidence can override human nature.

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