Businesses always make more profit when the individual consumer has more money available to spend on the business’s products, and both benefit when individual purchasing power and profits are not eroded by price inflation.  So how is a universal “citizen’s dividend” and a statistically derived macro-economic discount on retail prices that is entirely rebated back to participating merchants so that they can be whole on their overheads and margins…..not the perfect set of policies to remedy the current ongoing economic sluggishness in perpetuity???  The quick and honest answer is…yes, they are the perfect micro and macro-economic solution to the above biggest and deepest problems of advanced economies. Also, an additional and direct benefit of the individual dividend is it immediately makes the taxes that both individuals and businesses pay for welfare, unemployment insurance and eventually even social security completely redundant. So how much more individual purchasing power and business profit does that translate into? A lot is the obvious answer.

Technologically advanced economies are increasingly beset by a laundry list of internal and external forces that are endangering their profitability and their very survival. It is way past time that businesses and individuals realize the rational self interests they share….and demand that the Banking elite, economists and politicians awaken to their responsibilities to make the prosperous and hopeful future such policies will create…a concrete and immanent reality.