🎩 The Scam They Won’t Teach You in School: How the Rich Print Money While You Work for It🎩

🛑 The Game Was Rigged Before You Even Knew You Were Playing

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🔥 The Scam They Won’t Teach You in School: How the Rich Print Money While You Work for It 🔥

Last week, we pulled back the curtain on the biggest con in history—how America launders its debt through dollar hegemony, offshoring inflation while maintaining the illusion of stability. But what happens when that system stops working for the people inside it?

This week, we expose the next phase of the scam—the growing wealth gap, the engineered financial inequality, and why your dollars buy less, your labor is worth less*, and your future is being sold off in real time. *Have you ever considered that capital is taxed at 20% (eg, capital gains), while labor—your sweat, your time, your actual work—is taxed as much as 37%?

I believe that capitalism, in its purest form, is the most natural and effective economic system ever devised—an engine of innovation, competition, and wealth creation that has lifted more people out of poverty than any alternative in history. Unlike centrally planned economies, which suffocate under the weight of bureaucracy, or socialist experiments that inevitably collapse under their own inefficiencies, capitalism thrives on voluntary exchange, risk-taking, and the relentless pursuit of progress. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: what we have today isn’t capitalism—it’s something far more insidious.

The free market has been hijacked, its mechanisms rigged to reward those closest to the levers of power while insulating them from failure. This isn’t the invisible hand at work—it’s a clenched fist, siphoning wealth upward while leaving the rest to fight over an increasingly smaller share of the pie. And until we acknowledge that crony capitalism and true capitalism are not the same, we will remain unwitting participants in an economy that no longer rewards hard work, but proximity to power.

🔥 Inside This Week’s Dead Drop: 🔥

💰 The Scam They Won’t Teach You in School
How the rich print money while you work for it—and why the game was rigged long before you sat down at the table.

📉 Money Velocity: The Crime Scene No One Investigated
Why the speed of money circulation collapsed, and how trillions got trapped at the top—while you got stuck with the bill.

📈 The Cantillon Effect: The Original Blueprint for Economic Manipulation
An 18th-century economist exposed the con centuries ago. Understand this, and you’ll never look at money the same way again.

🔧 The Path Forward: How to Escape the Scam and Play the Game Like the Rich
Own assets. Leverage debt. Deploy AI. Build parallel systems. If you’re not playing like the elite, you’re playing for scraps.

📜 Cognitive Insights: Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent
How propaganda became a science—and how it’s still used to sell you lies, control your beliefs, and manufacture your consent. Learn the tactics before they’re used against you.

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"The greatest scam isn’t just that the rich get richer—it’s that they convinced you it’s your fault you’re getting poorer. The system isn’t broken. It was built to keep you chasing while they print, manipulate, and extract. And the real crime? They made sure you’d blame across and down—never up."

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🔥 The Great American Wealth Illusion: How Money Printing, Crony Capitalism, and the Cantillon Effect Stole Your Future 🔥

"Capitalism rewards risk, innovation, and hard work."

That’s the bedtime story they whisper in your ear while they rob you blind.

Here’s the real story:

Capitalism—real capitalism—is dead. It was murdered by crony capitalism, a rigged game where wealth isn’t created, it’s extracted. Where those closest to the money printer win by default, and the rest of us fight over the inflationary breadcrumbs.

In a free market, the best ideas win. In crony capitalism, proximity to power is the only currency that matters.

By the time newly printed money reaches you, it's already inflated asset prices, boosted corporate profits, and locked you out of the American Dream.

Welcome to the Cantillon Effect, where wealth isn’t earned—it’s allocated.

You don’t live in a free market. You live in a gilded casino where the house always wins—because they print the chips.

📉 The Money Velocity Crime Scene: How They Froze the Economy and Froze You Out

A trillion-dollar heist happened in broad daylight, and no one even noticed.

The evidence? Money velocity (M2)—the speed at which money moves through the economy—flatlined after 2008.

🔹 Before 2008: Every dollar in circulation changed hands 2.2 times per year.
🔹 Today? Below 1.2. A 50% collapse.

What does that mean? It means all the trillions of dollars printed in recent years didn’t flow into your paycheck, your savings, or your community. It got trapped at the top—hoarded in corporate treasuries, hedge funds, and speculative assets.

🔹 Think back to 2020. The economy shut down. Millions lost jobs. Businesses collapsed. Yet, real estate prices skyrocketed.

Did you ever stop to ask why?

Stimulus checks weren’t the real story. The real story was that the Federal Reserve printed trillions, but instead of hitting the pockets of ordinary people, that money went straight into financial markets.

While you were doom-scrolling Zillow, institutional investors were buying entire neighborhoods.

While you were priced out of homeownership, BlackRock was bidding against you with money they borrowed at 0% interest.

You weren’t participating in an economic boom. You were a spectator in a rigged game.

🧾 The Paycheck Protection Program: The Biggest Inside Job Since 2008

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was supposed to keep small businesses afloat during the pandemic. Instead? It became a trillion-dollar wealth transfer to the elite.

🔹 Out of $800 billion disbursed, only 23-34% actually made it to worker paychecks.
🔹 75% of the benefits went to the top 20% of income earners.
🔹 Self-certification meant businesses could claim “need” and pocket millions—legally.

This wasn’t a bailout for the working class. It was an inside job. A government-sanctioned raid on public funds.

And the same people who tell you "We can't afford social programs" somehow found a trillion dollars overnight—for the people who needed it least.

💰 The Cantillon Effect: Why the Rich Get Richer While You Get Screwed

If you’ve ever wondered why Wall Street gets bailouts while Main Street gets evictions, meet Richard Cantillon, an 18th-century economist who called the scam before America even existed. Centuries before central banks and corporate bailouts, Cantillon uncovered the ugly truth—new money doesn’t flow evenly. It moves first to the powerful, inflating their wealth while the rest scramble for breadcrumbs.

His warning? The rich don’t get richer by working harder. They get richer by being closest to the money printer.

Welcome to the Cantillon Effect—the original blueprint for financial deception.

Richard Cantillon: The Man Who Saw the Scam Before It Had a Name.

🔹 The Cantillon Effect in Action:

1️⃣ When central banks print money, it doesn’t go to workers—it goes to banks, hedge funds, and corporations.
2️⃣ By the time it trickles down to you, inflation has already spiked. Your paycheck stays the same, but everything costs more.
3️⃣ The rich don’t earn wealth—they extract it. While you trade hours for dollars, they watch their assets appreciate.

This is why the cost of housing, healthcare, and education has exploded, while wages have barely moved.

This isn’t capitalism—it’s financial feudalism.

📊 The Hard Data: America’s Two-Tiered Economy

🔹 Stock Buybacks & Executive Greed:

  • In 1982, stock buybacks were illegal—considered market manipulation.

  • Today, corporations spend $1 trillion per year buying their own stocks instead of paying workers.

🔹 Wage Stagnation vs. Asset Inflation:

  • Since 1980, worker productivity increased by 64%, but wages only rose 17%.

  • Meanwhile, the S&P 500 surged over 2,000%.

  • If wages had kept pace with productivity, the minimum wage would be $25/hour today.

🔹 Housing: The Death of the American Dream

  • In 1970, the average home cost 2.5x the median income.

  • Today, it’s 7x.

  • Who owns these homes? BlackRock, Vanguard, and hedge funds, turning once-affordable neighborhoods into rental traps.

🏦 The Scam of "Free Market Capitalism"—It’s Socialism for the Rich

Whenever you face a crisis, you're told to "tighten your belt."

Whenever the wealthy face a crisis, the government writes them a blank check.

🔹 2008 Financial Crisis:

  • Banks caused the crash. Instead of letting them fail, taxpayers bailed them out with $700 billion.

  • Homeowners? Millions foreclosed while Wall Street bought their houses at pennies on the dollar.

🔹 COVID-19 Stimulus (2020):

  • Congress printed $4 trillion—but 92% of it went to corporations, not workers.

  • The richest 1% saw their wealth increase by $1.8 trillion.

This isn’t capitalism. This is state-sponsored wealth extraction—where profits are privatized, and losses are socialized.

🚨 The Big Lie: "Hard Work Will Make You Rich"

Let’s kill this fantasy once and for all:

You will never outwork financial engineering.

🔹 You were told to "save money." They printed trillions and made yours worthless.

🔹 They told you to “invest responsibly”—while they colluded in back rooms, front-running the market with information you’d never see.

🔹 They told you to “work hard”—while they rewrote the rules in their favor, ensuring your effort fuels their empire, not your freedom.

The economy isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed.

🔥 The Path Forward: Escape the Scam, Play the Game, Win on Your Terms

You don’t need to overthrow capitalism—you need to reclaim it.

1️⃣ Own Assets – The middle class works for money. The rich make money work for them.
2️⃣ Use Debt as a Weapon – Billionaires don’t earn money. They borrow against their assets—tax-free.
3️⃣ Leverage AI & Automation – If jobs are disappearing, be the one deploying AI—not getting replaced by it.
4️⃣ Build Parallel Systems – Stop begging corrupt institutions to fix themselves. Create your own.
5️⃣ Demand Hard Money – Inflation is theft. Own assets they can’t print more of.

🔥 The Bottom Line: Play the Game or Get Played

The rules weren’t made to benefit you.

So stop playing by them.

Your move. 🚀

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Cognitive Insights

🚨Cognitive Insights: Edward Bernays and the Engineering of Consent🚨

The Puppet Master: How Edward Bernays Made You Think It Was Your Idea 

If you believe you have original thoughts, that your opinions are solely your own, brace yourself for a brutal awakening. Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations, spent decades proving that your beliefs, your desires, even your deepest convictions—can be engineered.

Bernays didn’t just shape public opinion—he manufactured it, wrapping manipulation in the silk of persuasion and calling it democracy. He wasn’t just a propagandist; he was a tactician of mass influence, applying Freudian psychology, crowd dynamics, and social engineering to make people beg for the very things he wanted them to consume.

From selling cigarettes as "Torches of Freedom" to orchestrating a CIA-backed coup in Guatemala, Bernays turned PR into a weapon—one still wielded against you today.

But here’s the real kicker: his playbook isn’t just for governments and corporations. If you understand how it works, you can use these same principles in your business, personal brand, or even your social circles—turning persuasion into power.

🧠 1. The Illusion of Free Will—People Will Do Anything If You Frame It Correctly

Bernays understood that people don’t act based on facts—they act based on perception. Truth is irrelevant. What matters is controlling the lens through which the public sees reality.

🔹 Hack: If you want people to take action, don’t give them a choice—frame the decision so that taking your desired path feels inevitable.

  • Example: Instead of saying “Would you like to buy this?” say “Would you prefer to pay in full or in installments?”

  • Psychology: By presenting options within your framework, people feel like they’re making a choice—when in reality, they’re just selecting from pre-determined outcomes you control.

🎭 2. The Power of Manufactured Movements—Make People Think It’s Their Idea

Want to sell something? Don’t push it—make it part of a "bigger cause.” Bernays knew that people crave meaning, and he used that to market products as symbols of rebellion, empowerment, or social change.

Case Study: Torches of Freedom

  • In 1929, women smoking in public was taboo. Bernays didn’t just market cigarettes—he turned them into a symbol of feminism. He hired debutantes to light up during an Easter parade, branding it a statement against male oppression.

  • The media ran with it. Women bought the illusion. And Lucky Strike sales soared.

🔹 Hack: Want mass adoption? Tie your product, idea, or brand to a social movement.

  • Example: Instead of selling “eco-friendly shoes,” push “joining the fight against pollution.”

  • Psychology: People don’t just buy products; they buy identities. Sell them one.

📢 3. Influence the Influencers—Because the Masses Follow Leaders

Bernays didn’t waste time persuading the public directly. He persuaded their idols instead.

🔹 Hack: If you want mass influence, target the gatekeepers.

  • Example: Instead of convincing customers to buy, convince the people they already trust—their favorite influencers, media outlets, or authority figures.

  • Psychology: Humans are tribal. We look to leaders for guidance. Convert the leader, and the tribe follows.

👥 4. Control the Language, Control the Narrative

Bernays knew that words aren’t just communication tools—they shape perception. He advised companies and governments to rename things to make them more palatable.

Case Study: The CIA Coup in Guatemala

  • When the CIA helped overthrow Guatemala’s government in 1954, Bernays didn’t call it "a coup." He branded it as "liberation from Communism.”

  • The press ran with it. The public bought it. And a U.S.-backed dictatorship took control.

🔹 Hack: Rebrand the reality you want people to accept.

  • Example: Instead of saying “price increase,” say “value adjustment.” Instead of “layoffs,” say “workforce optimization.”

  • Psychology: Words aren’t neutral—they dictate how people react.

🔮 5. Create Scarcity—Even When It Doesn’t Exist

Bernays understood that people want what they think they can’t have.

🔹 Hack: If you want demand, manufacture scarcity.

  • Example: Instead of “Sign up now,” say “Only 100 spots left—first come, first served.”

  • Psychology: The fear of missing out (FOMO) is one of the strongest psychological triggers. People value exclusivity.

🧠 6. Freud’s Nephew and the Psychological Leveraging of Fear

Bernays wasn’t just a master manipulator—he had an unfair advantage. He was Sigmund Freud’s nephew, and he used psychoanalysis to weaponize human fears and desires.

The Formula:

  • Step 1: Find a primal human fear (death, rejection, insecurity).

  • Step 2: Attach that fear to a product or idea.

  • Step 3: Offer your solution as the only escape.

🔹 Case Study: The Dixie Cup Campaign

  • Bernays convinced the public that drinking from reusable glasses was unsanitary.

  • He linked it to fears of germs and disease.

  • Solution? Disposable cups. Sales skyrocketed.

🔹 Hack: If you want to sell something, attach it to a deep-seated fear or social stigma—then position yourself as the solution.

💡 Final Thought: You’re Being Played—But So Is Everyone Else

Bernays didn’t invent manipulation. He just refined it into an art form. His legacy isn’t just in marketing—it’s in politics, media, and even the way you see yourself. But once you understand how the game works, you don’t have to be a pawn.

Use these principles wisely. Influence is power. And power, when used correctly, changes everything.

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About The Fraudfather

The Fraudfather combines a unique blend of experiences as a former Senior Special Agent, Supervisory Intelligence Operations Officer, and now a recovering Digital Identity & Cybersecurity Executive, He has dedicated his professional career to understanding and countering financial and digital threats.

Fast Facts Regarding the Fraudfather:

🌍 Global Adventures: He’s been kidnapped in two different countries—but not kept for more than a day.

🥤 Uncommon Encounter: Former President Bill Clinton made him a protein shake.

🚀 Unusual Transactions: He inadvertently bought and sold a surface-to-air missile system.

Perpetual Patience: He spent 12 hours in an elevator.

🤝 Unique Conversations: He spoke one-on-one with Pope Francis for five minutes using reasonable Spanish.

🐝 Uncommon Hobbies: He discussed beekeeping with James Hetfield from Metallica.

🏹 Passion for Teaching: He taught teenagers archery in the town center of Kyiv, Ukraine.

✈️ Unlikely Math: Until the age of 26, he had taken off in a plane more times than he had landed.

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