The core problem is the current anomalous monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money, that is the applied and reality enforcing concept of Debt ONLY. The word ONLY designates it as a monopoly paradigm exactly like Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY described the paradigm that The Reformation resolved. We need a monetary reformation/paradigm change. Historically all new paradigms are in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm and the new paradigm’s application totally inverts the prior paradigm’s enforcing reality for instance the Copernican cosmological paradigm change from geo/ego-centrism to helio/other than ego centrism. Paradigm changes are both mental and temporal universe phenomena and policies are the actions of systems so the opposite concept/reality of Debt as in the burden to pay/repay ONLY would be policies of Monetary Gifting. MMT is correct in identifying government deficits as payments to the private sector in other words a form of Gifting. Steve Keen advocates for “a modern debt jubilee” which is also monetary Gifting. UBI/Universal Dividend is also monetary Gifting. However, the most efficacious way to implement Monetary Gifting would be with a 50% Discount/Rebate at the various points of retail sale throughout the entire economic process…because EVERYONE must and does participate in/experience the effects of retail sale which in this case would be 1) the transformation of chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation 2) the mathematical doubling of everyone’s purchasing power and thus the potential demand for every enterprise’s goods and services 3) the transformation of chronic individual monetary austerity into universal relative monetary abundance and 4) just as a kicker would be the greatest opportunity to self actualize grace as in gratitude for a Gift of price/cost since meditation and prayer. We need a Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Of course stabilizing a new paradigm would require an entire policy program and additional insights in the system/body of knowledge under analysis like Copernicus’ correct concept needed Gallileo’s observation of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter to establish that a helio-centric system was possible, and Kepler’s discovery of elliptical orbits to make helio-centrism actually more accurate than Ptolemaic cosmology. Ann I think your insights regarding the destabilizing effects of speculative finance is not unlike Kepler’s contribution and my additional assertion that “free” market theoretics is actually a fetishized belief in TOTAL FREEDOM and so is a misnomer for chaos because it ignores/does not realize that actual human freedom only exists within known and enforceable barriers.