Tarrifs: How To Make Them Work Beneficially

First off, forcing punishment when an actual beneficial solution better accomplishes a goal is the definition of stupidity and pig headedness. Are you listening Donald Trump?

If a country is inflating their prices on their exports to us then they must cut their prices to match our competitive price for the same commodities…and then cut their price an additional 50% they will be eligible to receive the rebate of that 50% of price back to them by our central bank.

And while their at it they would be smart to implement the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale in their own country because it doubles their population’s purchasing power and thus demand for all of their commercial agent’s goods and services thus supercharging their domestic economy.

The combination of the excellent tool of double entry bookkeeping and a new and innovative applied concept/paradigm has historically resolved previously seemingly unresolvable problems.

Play out the effects of the policy until you see how evolutionary this single policy is.

Posted To Phil Dobbie and Steve Keen’s Podcast 02/18/2026

CAPS ARE FOR EMPHASIS NOT NECESSARILY FOR SHOUTING

Money is a good and innovative economic tool I see no reason to not use it. What you want is to make money both more abundant and democratically distributed which is why I keep advocating for a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at both the consumer and the financial points of retail sale. That way the purchasing power of whatever money one is making (or getting for free) gets doubled by the discount and then with the central bank rebating the entirety of the discounts back to the merchant they are made whole on their entire price. Voila! A more abundant, democratic, innovative and graciously GIFTING economy.

As to energy, the 50% discount at retail sale implements beneficial price and asset deflation so you no longer have to resort to the ham handed tool of increasing the FED fund’s interest rate to “control” inflation and neither do you have to tax the shit out of everyone, but if you implemented a sliding scale required percentage “tax” of GIFTED purchasing power be invested in Eco-Energy R & D treasury bonds, that is a GIFT of investment, at an enticing rate of say 5-6% we could actually reduce taxation, and maybe we could discover how to harness zero point energy or at least fund the off planeting of energy production and the dirtiest forms of commodity production.

So you see that the wisdom of applying the relevant aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace, LIKE STRATEGIC GIFTING, destroys rigid orthodoxies, resolves problems, enables progress toward rational goals and integrates the MENTALLY CONFLICTING seeming opposite concepts of capitalism and socialism into a thirdness greater oneness OF TEMPORAL UNIVERSE REALITIES.

So let us have a Wisdomics-Gracenomics…as soon as possible.

Zietgiestology:

The study of the rational consideration of morals also known as ethics, and of the discovery that ethics are an essential aspect of the cosmos.

Cosmology:

The study of the essential aliveness, livingness and awareness…of everything.

Paradigmology:

Entirely the study and application of the aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.

The Whole of Human History and Endeavor…

…is shaped by the interaction between our various historical paradigm changes, and being stuck in the ongoing struggle between the only human historical phenomenon higher and more consequencial, namely a/the present human zietgiest, that is the human ethic of the age.

Our progress has been, and will continue to be grudging and minimal until we recognize that the beneficial effects of every historical paradigm change have always been an APPLIED aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace…and that the universally recognized superlative human ethic is also grace as in love/loving action.

Now, what is the present human zeitgiest/ethic of the age you may ask? Well, its Power, Profit and Control, and because the vast majority of individuals do not recognize this fact it is approaching Power, Profit and Control ONLY.

So what is the solution to this problematic and dangerous situation? Well, if you follow the facts and logic above, its acting toward and applying both personally and even more importantly systemically, the new zeitgiest of Grace As In Redeemed/Redemptive Power, Profit and Control.

Finally, where do we BEST start and supercharge this process? We find the relevant aspect(s) of grace and implement SYSTEMIC policies that CONTINUALLY evoke, ellicit and enable those aspects/experiences in our interactions with/participation in those systems, especially in systems that everyone must and does participate in, like for instance in the economy with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale with the tool of money and the relevant aspect of grace, namely a 50% GIFT OF PRICE to the consumer and reciprocally the equivalent amount of GIFTED MONEY back to the merchant granting it to the consumer thus making the merchant whole on their entire price.

Steve Hummel 02/16/2026

Posted To Steve Keen’s YouTube Video 02/15/2026

 @profstevekeen  Give every commercial agent (and every individual one as well) an account at the central bank and then have the central bank implement the rebate aspect of a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at regular consumer retail sale AND at the retail point of Finance which is everyone’s mortgage, automobile, insurance or other big ticket item. That way $100 worth of groceries only costs $50, and a $500k house costs only $250k and yet the central bank also pays for half of your mortgage payment every month so you get that $500k house for the equivalent of a $125k loan. Voila! Beneficial price and asset deflation, everyone’s purchasing power is doubled or quadrupled, The Quantity Theory of Money is invalidated and everyone can (if they’re smart enough) consciously self actualize gratitude for a gift by buying something instead of feeling frustration and anger because since the beginning of economics the monopoly paradigm of money creation has always been Debt ONLY. Strategic Monetary Gifting…the new monetary and economic paradigm.

And by the way that policy is pure double entry bookkeeping…except the central bank doesn’t have to be in positive financial equity. And its also not only “a modern debt jubilee” its not just a one-off debt jubilee, but a continuous one.

Why Trinity Ellicits Movement/Change

Because its signatures include: transition (mental and temporal movement), resolution (of duality/problems), integration (of opposed self interests), unitary thirdness greater oneness of a problematic duality/problem (which is the very mindset and intellectual discipline of Wisdom) and gracefullness as in dynamic, integrative flow.

The Next Step In Human Evolution

Find a way to increase the experience of grace as in gratitude, like Gifting for instance, by making the experience of gratitude for a gift a daily experience…that everyone must and does participate in, in order to even survive.

Like a policy of a 50% Discount/Gift at retail sale, all of which gift of price is monetarily Rebated/Gifted back to the merchant granting it to the individual consumer. Its a continuing temporal universe application and opportunity to self actualize what meditation and prayer are designed to do, i.e. create the experience of thankfullness, gratitude, positivity and joy…not to mention increased awareness.

Proof That Grace Is Scientific

Because grace/love in action/loving is union as in entanglement…just like everything in the cosmos at root is entangled…as science/physics is now beginning to tell us.

And as grace is also a heightened experience of whatever experience you are experiencing probably the best way to heighten the experience of grace/love/union/entanglement/process-time-space…is to reach out or reach in/look at with the instrument for seeing, that is your eyes and/or your consciousness itself in order to know/experience your entanglement with everything.

And as grace is also love in action/a doingness…what are you waiting for? 🙂