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James Quinn is a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held financial positions with a retailer, homebuilder and university in his 22-year career. Those positions included treasurer, controller, and head of strategic planning. He is married with three boys and... More
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    Good articles but probably best left on the instablog.
    Aug 03 09:38 AM | Link | Reply
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    James,

    I like your articles...like your comments...by all means, please continue.
    Aug 03 09:45 AM | Link | Reply
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    I probably agree with Dan Katz. These are excellent articles of great interest to anyone seeking to understand the big picture, but Seeking Alpha may not be the appropriate forum for publishing them. Keep writing, James, and keep posting links on SA for all of us who want to read them.
    Aug 03 11:16 AM | Link | Reply
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    What?

    Your articles are some of the best on the entire site.

    Guess what - the big political is of fundamental importance to navigating the world's financial systems.

    I disagree with SA in this totally.
    Aug 03 02:55 PM | Link | Reply
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    Good articles. Some people just don't like to hear the truth spelt out.
    Aug 03 06:49 PM | Link | Reply
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    I think SA just doesn't want to be responsible for any media fallout that may come from someone advocating the 'decline and fall of the American Empire' on their website. If I was running a business of any sort, I'd certainly feel the same way.

    At least they allowed you to post the link for anyone interested in reading it (I wasn't, but thanks anyway).
    Aug 04 12:29 AM | Link | Reply
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    Who's advocating? Don't make a comment about an article you haven't read. That is plain ignorance.


    On Aug 04 12:29 AM Ricard wrote:

    > I think SA just doesn't want to be responsible for any media fallout
    > that may come from someone advocating the 'decline and fall of the
    > American Empire' on their website. If I was running a business of
    > any sort, I'd certainly feel the same way.
    >
    > At least they allowed you to post the link for anyone interested
    > in reading it (I wasn't, but thanks anyway).
    Aug 04 08:54 AM | Link | Reply
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    James your articles are spot on and as long as SA allows you to post your links I would not get to wrapped up in that decision. Those who follow you know where to go and enjoy the instablogs and pass them on to our friends.

    Keep up the good fight.
    Aug 04 09:40 AM | Link | Reply
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    James,
    Your articles are great and I am pleased to read them, instablog or otherwise. One of the things I like about SA is the absence of politics-- writers are forced to discuss ideas instead of parties; on the other hand, it is frustrating because many investors no longer understand what each party stands for-- and who is effected by new laws. I hope you will continue to instablog, build your readership, take over the world...

    SA chose not to post a couple of my articles that were critical of socialist policy; maybe the articles sucked, maybe they were ok, but I think it is important for SA writers to stay in contact so we can detect patterns if they become apparent.
    Aug 04 10:02 AM | Link | Reply
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    Good work, James, as long as you can post the links so I can read the articles, I will be happy.

    Many people may not be aware of the difficulties that Orwell had getting Animal Farm published. There were a lot of covert communists floating around in Britain at the time he wrote it, and some of them actually succeeded in quashing the publication of it. After all, you couldn't have anyone criticizing the great Soviet Union or saying anything bad about Uncle Joe Stalin, even if he was one of the biggest mass murderers in history.

    If you go back and read a book like Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of Great Powers (published in 1987) he may not have been right on everything, but the trends he described are correct. The U.S. is an empire in all but name and if we don't get our stuff together we will suffer the fate of all prior empires that have bitten the dust.
    Aug 04 11:08 AM | Link | Reply
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    I never had a problem with your Articles, I even agreed with them. I may have been a "tad" sensitive about the language but considering the Abuse Seeking Alpha has allowed to heap on my head, how you want to express yourself is entirely in your hands.

    I have learned the "Hard Way" that what they Say and what they Do are 2 different animals.

    Keep up the Good work.
    Sep 18 10:32 PM | Link | Reply
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    I use Seeking Alpha less and less. I have 10 other sites posting my articles and I'm up to 90,000 visitors per month on my site.


    On Sep 18 10:32 PM one eye wrote:

    > I never had a problem with your Articles, I even agreed with them.
    > I may have been a "tad" sensitive about the language but considering
    > the Abuse Seeking Alpha has allowed to heap on my head, how you want
    > to express yourself is entirely in your hands.
    >
    > I have learned the "Hard Way" that what they Say and what they Do
    > are 2 different animals.
    >
    > Keep up the Good work.
    Sep 19 11:34 PM | Link | Reply
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    Excellent articles. Please continue post at Seeking Alpha, even if you are only permitted to post the links. Patriots are often scorned!
    Sep 20 04:41 AM | Link | Reply
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