Economists can neither see clear nor deeply enough to free themselves and the rest of us from enslavement by Finance. It has obviously been a problematic business model for millennia and yet they still will not rise up on their own hind legs and deal with it. Belief that reform can handle a millennial monopoly is delusional, it requires transformation. Transformation via naturalization and true conceptual balancing. For instance true balancing of the power of Finance requires a concept, an idea, a paradigm with equal power to Finance. Government stimulus? Get real, number one every government is dominated by Finance, number two that’s still reform and hence a palliative solution. Consider, Debt is a direct economic injection whose effects are never able to be equated and that, given Time, roll downhill until the individual is crushed by them. You can go round and round justifying debt theoretically on a surface and governmental level, but it always comes back and bites you in the ass on both the individual level and systemic levels because of two things: 1) As a flow, total individual incomes/individual costs are chronically less than total business costs and 2) this is true for every enterprise making it THE most underlying, dynamic and hence most significant macro-economic metric of the problem. All other observations of economic problems stem from this problem and are thus by definition less deep and/or lacking in completeness/wholeness of Time and process/missing data and insight. Rents? Subsequent and peripheral. Income inequality? Same. Monetary inflation? Same. Profit? Same. Human flaw? Systemically irrelevant and same. Asset inflation? Way subsequent and ultimately tied to the more underlying problem. And finally Debt build up on all levels but particularly the private level? Inevitable because of the underlying problem. Think it through.

Back to the directness and paradigmatic natures of the problem, we therefore need direct and paradigm changing policies that deal specifically with the deepest problem as per above, and that is a direct payment to the individual and a continuing reduction of costs/prices at the retail level. And only then can one claim that they are actually offering solutions.