Posted To Steve Keen’s Substack Newsletter 08/28/2026

It is correct that the money multiplier and loanable funds theories are false. Full stop. Likewise with the “problem” of “the national Debt.” However, rectifying the thinking around these fallacies does not penetrate to the level of actual solutions, only palliatives to one degree or another, unless and until one analyzes money on the conceptual/paradigmatic level. Paradigms/APPLIED concepts current and new are what changes both mental and temporal universe realities. Thus failing to analyze the system conceptually places the cart before the horse.

Banks do create money. That is not the problem. The problem is they create money ONLY AS DEBT/a monopoly paradigm and then when various poorly or completely unregulated forms of speculation, “innovations” like derivatives as we saw before the GFC of 2007 and other more legitimate speculative investments like AI these “externalities” cause a crisis. However, the system with the present monopoly paradigm is basically unstable all by itself its just that the above make it more rapidly so.

The trick is to find a place/places to implement the new paradigm, which is always in complete conceptual opposition to the present anomalous paradigm (read in this instance Strategic Monetary Gifting vs Debt Only), that directly inverts and resolves the problems of inflation, monetary and demand austerity and the system’s basic instability itself…for all economic agents…and that point is regular consumer retail sale and the retail point of finance as well with a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at these macro-economic as in universally participated in points in the economy. That is a paradigm change in a single policy…and with the rest of conceptually aligned policy program, ties up the rest of the strings in a complex system like the economy and a universe that is innately emergent.

Finally, realize that all of the remedies of the current problems are actually monetary gifting in one way or another like UBI, job guarantee, debt jubilee, its just that they aren’t sufficiently universally and continually effective…like the above policy at the points of retail sale. Thus they are palliatives that don’t change/invert the systemic realities.

Finally, finally, give everyone, every commercial agent and also the government (already accomplished) an account with the central bank and mandate that it create and fund the Rebate aspect of the 50% Discount/Rebate and Mission Accomplished! for real this time. And consider that taxes are the retail point of government so the 50% Discount/Rebate policy reduces taxes by that percentage. Not even the oligarchs and the banks could bitch about that.

Its a Social Faux Paugh To Refuse a Gift

And likewise its an absurd misunderstanding and actually arrogance to deny the gifted benefits of the new monetary paradigm created by the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale, and the rest of the new paradigm policy program.

Do not be deceived.

Steve Hummel 08/27/2026

We Use Double Entry Bookkeeping To Track Everything Monetary and Economic..

…so why don’t we do the same to break up the present monopoly monetary paradigm of Debt Only with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the various points of retail sale? Its a tremendously unconscious and mistaken oversight considering that such a tool and policy resolves the deepest problems and anomalies of modern economic systems like chronic price and asset inflation, chronic austerity of monetary/purchasing power and so demand for virtually all goods and services and the human civilization-long rule of humanity by Finance. It doesn’t make sense to not implement this solution when you can simply model its multiple systemic and individual beneficial effects.

Get outside of the box of the present monopoly monetary and economic paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt Only, and we will have arrived at the probably only the fourth mega-paradigm change in human history. And that doesn’t even measure the new paradigm’s social, psychological and spiritual benefits like how it makes participating in the economy the greatest opportunity to self actualize grace as in gratitude for a gift…since meditation and prayer.

So be it.

Steve Hummel

What Does The 50% Discount/Rebate At Regular Consumer And Also Financial Retail Sale Do For The Banks?

It not only makes everyone creditable, but also makes them anxious to borrow, which a large percentage of individuals being afflicted by unaffordability cannot justify doing, thus greatly increasing the market for Banking’s product, namely debt.

And by having the central bank simply create and distribute, debt free, 50% of everyone’s mortgage, insurance, automobile and other big ticket item’s monthly payment it makes the central bank the best friend forever of everybody including the banks…not just the bail bondsman for the banks when inflation and the monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money known as Debt Only…which the banks wield…serially and historically has destabilized domestic economies.

Thus The Federal Reserve becomes The General Reserve.

Steve Hummel 08/27/2026

Wisdomics-Gracenomics:

At base, humanity’s applied ideas also known as paradigms are what creates and shapes our realities both mentally and temporally. This makes them integrative resolutions of opposites/dualities/problems which is also the very intellectual process and effect of what has always been known as wisdom. Wise because its a program of resolving integration of the opposites of cost/debt/price with strategic monetary and economic grace as in Gifting (opposites) at the various equally strategic temporal points of retail sale throughout the economy utilizing the abstract trinitarian effecting tool of double entry bookkeeping (opposites).

This insight and application is what I refer to as Wisdomics-Gracenomics. It is a new integrative paradigm program of direct and reciprocally Gifted purchasing power/monetary distributism that resolves the present monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money also known as Debt Only.

Steve Hummel 08/27/2026

Why The 50% Discount/Rebate At Retail Sale Works

Because its a universally participated in beneficial reciprocality…as in a caring relationship utilizing the reciprocal tool of accounting’s trinitarian formula of equal 1) debits and 2) credits that 3) sum to zero at retail sale which is the very purpose point of economics as in monetary profit from exchange.

Reciprocality/a caring mutually beneficial relationship is a primary aspect of the concept and experience of grace, and that fact is the enlightening and empowering “thing” behind every historical new applied idea/paradigm.

Addendum: Virtually all present discounts are fraudulent in that there is no market for the claimed price before the discount is applied due to the actual austerity of demand. That is why all present discounts must be applied before being eligible for the potent economic and monetary reciprocal nature of the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale.

Why Does Government Have To Pay The Total Costs For Everything It Legislates And Everyone Has To Pay For The Total Costs of Everything They Buy As Well…

…when the ultimate monetary authority is the central bank and it could just create the money necessary to pay for 50% of the benefits government identifies as rationally needed and 50% of the cost of everything we buy when we go to the store as well?

Why not just mandate that the central bank create and distribute 50% of the cost of all such government legislation and also 50% of the price of every good and service at its retail point in the economy???

“It will cause massive inflation!” say the economists. Well, if you can buy $100 worth of groceries or other consumer products or services for only $50 at the point of retail sale…thats a funny kind of inflation.

“It will sky rocket the national debt and the taxes needed to pay for those services!” say the conservative and even the liberal politicians. Well if the central bank just created and distributed 50% of the cost of all legislation with money…not bonds IOW not debt…that would reduce the amount of taxes individuals and enterprise needed to pay to cover those costs and benefits BY 50%and thats a funny kind of “necessary” increase in both taxes and debt.

“Thats harmful and over bearing!” say the people who wield the present paradigm. Well, if doubling the potential demand and hence the potential profit for every enterprise’s goods and services including the services of the private banks, IOW paying the bank 50% of everyone’s monthly debt paymentthats a funny kind of harmfulness and overbearingness for everyone…including the private banks.

And all of these and other economic problems are caused by finance insisting that all new money must only be created and distributed as DEBT, in other words a monopolistic and so dominating and harmful monetary and economic paradigm concept of DEBT ONLY…and integrating a directly distributive and reciprocal monetary paradigm into the DEBT ONLY system with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the retail points of the economy and also of government costs solves virtually all of the long standing economic problems everyone is forced to endure because of the present paradigm.

The last monopoly paradigm we broke up was Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY and that was known as The Protestant Reformation.

We need a new monetary and economic reformation of Direct and Reciprocal Strategically Distributed Monetary Gifting at the retail points of the economy with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale.

Let us have such a gracious economy and gracious government.

Steve Hummel 08/25/2026

The Anti-Trust/Anti-Oligarchy Policy of Wisdomics-Gracenomics

Oligarchy and Multi-National Corporations With Global Reach will be broken up and not allowed to re-form. Private production itself will be allowed, but it will not be allowed to bully or bribe politicians and will be regulated and punished to insure that fact and to insure rational economic thinking and acting regarding climate change.

The new job guarantee of MMT will become affliate internet marketing for this de-centralized means of production ushering in a new abundance of entreprenuerism that will supplement the security created by the other policies of Strategic Monetary Gifting.

Steve Hummel 08/23/2026