In return for the abundantly increased demand/dividend and high percentage fully rebated discount programs that will free enterprise from the burden of welfare, unemployment and eventually even social security taxes all participants in these programs will agree not to raise their prices for any other reason than actual, legitimate and rigorously justified costs. Any deceitful or ungracious transgression of this regulation despite the graciously gifted relief from modern economy’s chronic lack of demand and the ability to better profit and prosper via such tax relief will swiftly result in loss of participation in such programs and a brand of anti-social intent.

You’re right inflation is stupid and unnecessary and deflation would be good for the economy. The problem is however, that individual incomes are increasingly less in ratio to costs and so prices and so a direct means of raising individual incomes is necessary or the continual deflation you so believe in….won’t work. What every economist and pundit, including yourself, is apparently unaware of is that both the money and the pricing system are digital. Hence you can both costlessly increase individual incomes and harmlessly create price deflation by simply taking complete but appropriate control of both of their problematic levels with the new economic paradigm of Gifting. And in so doing not only resolve the deepest structural and paradigmatic economic problems….but make these systems finally serve Man instead forcing Mankind to unethically serve them.

So orthodoxy and hence blindness is the real problem on both economic ideological sides. Try thinking a new thought and actually looking at the way the system works Mish. You might be pleasantly surprised and have less egg on your face when the new paradigm is actually perceived.

…that both the money and the pricing system are digital. Hence you can costlessly increase individual incomes and prevent any inflationary effect by simply taking complete but appropriate control of both of their problematic levels, and in so doing not only resolve the deepest structural and paradigmatic economic problems….but make these systems finally serve Man instead forcing Mankind to unethically serve them.

Steve Hummel 04/02/2017

WK:  Here is quotation from British author Eric de Maré’s book “A Matter of Life or Debt” (U.S. ed. of 1991, p. 87).  He cites C. H. Douglas writing in the New Age, March 28th, 1929:

Me:  Yes, the business model of Finance has always been an automatic economic and anti-social problem. This does not mean that interest alone is the problem. It is indeed finance’s enforced monopolistic paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only that are at the heart of the problem and must be effectively and terminally handled. This means that the paradigm of grace as in monetary Gifting must become not only the new, but also the primary paradigm that transforms our current condition of debt saturation into Gifting saturation. This does not preclude debt from also being a part of the system, but the primacy of monetary Gifting must become a reality….or the economy’s workability and even more importantly the ethical nature of the economy will never be stable and humane.

Paradigms are both generally held individual norms and general structural realities. Thus awareness of the effects of present paradigms and consciousness of alternatives is the most basic and general way to educate the populace to their better survival…with those alternatives.

Steve Hummel 04/02/2017

With the chronic scarcity of demand an historical reality, the looming costs of healthcare and the imminent collapse of the pension system it is mandatory that these three financial markets be segmented off from the financial market in general and direct monetary gifting become the new paradigm that stabilizes them and the macro-economy as a whole.

To avoid or resist this necessity is to stand and do nothing as the social contract is ripped to shreds, technologically advanced modern economies collapse and chaos descends upon the world.

Which side do you stand on, the tyranny of Finance’s monopolistic paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only or financial freedom, sanity and humanity???

Finance has sucked the life out of the incredibly productive nature of profit making systems and the will of the vast majority of the general populace and its enforced monopolistic monetary paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only must be terminally integrated with the new paradigms of direct and reciprocal monetary Gifting to the individual and to businesses so that consumption of profit making system’s abundance can be effectively distributed and so the economy stabilized.

Individual income has always been scarce for the overwhelming majority of  people both because the Social Credit insight is correct, and because profit making systems in the last analysis are about power more than they are even money….unless or until the business model that creates the money dominates.  Then such systems must be on an inevitable decline. This is because the rate of flow of total costs exceeds the rate of flow of total individual income, not merely because of interest being charged by Finance. The obsessive focus on interest only is a distraction and a missing of the mark as interest is only a subset of total costs. However, interest is a major proportion of total costs because debt saturates the economy, and so abundant monetary Gifting is necessary. Necessary to become not only a balancing paradigm, but to become the new primary paradigm that saturates the economy. This is the only way that Banking and Finance will ever become a normalized business model instead of a parasite.

consider as many present time factors as you are capable of finding, and the state of Grace which is the continual integration/integrative process of resolving seeming opposites and which has traditionally been associated with an intense experience of present time.

Steve Hummel 04/01/2017

In a recently posted video on YouTube Steve Keen gave some very excellent insights by Marx regarding the unethical tendencies of the business model of Finance, the appropriate purposes of finance being the assistance of entrepreneurship and innovation as envisioned by Schumpeter and the financial instability hypothesis of Minsky.

These mirror my own conclusions and policy recommendations regarding the dominance of Finance’s currently enforced paradigms of Debt, Loan and For Production Only, the necessity of downsizing the private and consumer markets of Finance and the relegation of their economic influence to assisting only the new and more risky productive and innovative ventures that will assist in the thrust toward enabling the economy to do/produce more with less and finally, the freeing of the individual and enterprise from the dominating grip of Finance so that the entire system can flow freely while advancing.

As I have said numerous times Keen is probably the foremost economist on the planet. I would hope that he could acknowledge my philosophical route to co-equal conclusions, expanded policy discovery, extension and implementation and also my further accomplishment of an integration of science and natural Wisdom in a model/formula that more completely describes the world and assists science in progressing and making breakthroughs.

Steve Keen, probably the best economist on the planet, has continually tacked in the direction of Social Credit’s hypothesis and at least half of its policies, but he hasn’t yet recognized the extensions of Social Credit’s dual policies as elaborated in my books  Wisdomics/Gracenomics and The Cosmic Code and hence the consciousness insights of reflectivity, inversion of the primacy of empirical truths, the natural and spiritual power of the trinity-unity-oneness reality of the cosmos, the exact process of Wisdom and its concise formulation which itself is an integration of science and spirituality and so enables the deepening of the method of science, the acceleration of scientific insight and the greater likelihood of scientific breakthrough.

This is the lesson of Wisdom and Spirituality. Integration of opposing truths and only their opposing truths is Wisdom, and the result of adequate/complete Integration is the thirdness-oneness/trinity-unity-oneness-wholeness-process that is the underlying cosmic reality.