The Best of The Best

2014-06-11t155415z1813105711gm1ea6b1uc101rtrmadp3usa-politics-clintonI make the case constantly the truth has no utility in politics. For one it turns off voters. Secondly, as soon as the truth is told, it is arbitraged into something more appealing. Suppose candidate A tells the truth. Candidate B will change it just a little so as to get an even better response than candidate A. Then it is no longer the truth. As the processes continues the truth is completely swept from the political arena.

Hilary Clinton is the most accomplished liar I have ever heard. One principle of a good lie telling this lady understands perfectly is understanding completely what the audience wants to hear. What registers as truth with voters? Tell them what they want to hear and it will register with them as the truth.

As her campaign continues, everything Clinton says will be of the the nature of what people want to hear. Some audiences will hear one thing and others will hear another. It will be deemed the truth by those listening because it is what they want to hear.

Another important aspect of lie telling is understanding how fast negative interpretations fade from the national conversation. By now the Benghazi incident has been forgotten by the rank and file. She is an absolute artist at burying these things. Anyone who lies this effectively should never be dismissed becauae in democracy the best liar always wins.

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About Fantasy Free Economics

James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.

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