What Your Gut Already Knows About the Stock Market
James Quillian, Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the world through the lens of Natural Law. Usually, when I point out how things really work, people like to call me a “conspiracy theorist.” I prefer the term Conspiracy Observer. See, a “theory” is something you’re trying to prove. An “observation” is just looking at the cockroaches running across the floor when you flip on the light. If you see a law being passed or a market being moved, there’s a group of folks behind it looking out for their own interests. That’s not a theory; that’s just human nature.
To understand where we are today, we only need to ask three simple questions. First, the Will: If a small group of people could control the stock market to keep themselves rich and stay in power, would they? Second, the Means: Do the “1% elites” and the government actually have the power and the tools to do it? Finally, the Reality: If they have the will and they have the means, is it really “crazy” to assume they’re doing it right now?
The Tools Have Changed
Back in 1929, as John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Great Crash, the big bankers tried to save the market. One guy from J.P. Morgan walked onto the floor and started buying U.S. Steel at a high price just to show off. It worked for a few hours, but then the market collapsed. Back then, they had the Will, but they didn’t have the Means. They were trying to stop a tidal wave with a bucket. Today, that bucket has been replaced by a high-tech dam.
How the Asset Enhancement Initiative Works
I call this the Asset Enhancement Initiative. It’s an unwritten, undocumented, ongoing effort to make sure the market only goes one way: Up. Since about 2006, when the government “revitalized” something called the Plunge Protection Team, the game changed. They stopped using “traditional” tools like just moving interest rates and started using the “no-limit credit card” of national debt to prop everything up.
The HFT Police are a big part of this. We have High-Frequency Trading computers that trade faster than a human can blink. Their job isn’t “investing”—it’s managing the trend. They love it when volume is low because it’s easier to push the price around. They create “traps” for people betting against the market, squeezing them until they’re forced to buy, which just pushes the price higher. This creates an Inverse Relationship where prices go up while volume stays low, allowing the machines to manage the uptrend perfectly.
Then there is the Great Training. You’ve heard the old saying, “Buy the rumor, sell the news”? Well, they’ve trained the public to do the opposite. Now, everyone is conditioned to Buy on the News. Why? Because the elite need Exit Liquidity. They need a crowd of regular folks to jump in and buy so the big guys can sell their shares at the top without crashing the price. They even gave folks stimulus money and $0 commission apps to get them into the casino. It’s hard to complain about a rigged game when your own account is “up,” right?
The Natural Law Catch
The government is acting like a family with a credit card they never intend to pay back. They can postpone the Downside for years, but they can’t kill it. Natural Law says that what goes up must come down, and debt eventually demands a reckoning. The downside always reappears the moment Money Becomes Difficult to Borrow. Right now, they are just building the tower higher so the elite can climb out onto the roof before the whole thing implodes. If you look at the facts without the “fantasy” the experts sell you on TV, the system isn’t a mystery. It’s an administered reality. It’s obvious—if you’re willing to look.