I don’t disagree that Trump’s tarrif policies are crude, rude and chaotic. They are. However, the solution to the historical problem of geo-strategic instability and proneness to violence throughout human history, as Michael himself has excellently enumerated, lies elsewhere. That solution is for

1) ALL countries to awaken to the current and civilization long monetary paradigm concept that all new money must ONLY AND MONOPOLISTICALLY be created and distributed as debt thus, the concept of DEBT ONLY

2) and then also awaken to the new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting with

3) the primary policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale and also

4) a full policy program that stabilizes the new paradigm and enables many other individual benefits and socio-economic, ecological, energy and political problem resolutions.

…is set up to make the world safe for Private Banking with their monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money AKA Debt ONLY.

Throw off that fetishized framework of steaming horseshit and implement the new paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting, and also implement a sane and ethical system of taxation with known and enforceable barriers that actually would enable tax cuts and hence even more abundance and true freedom for both individuals and enterprise…and you’d have the greatest beneficial paradigm change in human history.

Run Ravel with strategic monetary gifting distributed at retail sale with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy there. Also, why assume that government deficits have to be zeroed out with only debt. Change the law so that both bonds and simply money as a gift can be strategically distributed to fund the government. You could also just amend the FED’s charter and have them create money as a gift to distribute the monies of the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale. Lots of other monetary gifting policies that create much more general abundance, enable tax cuts, supercharge rational action on energy R & D and necessary ecological changes and last but not least would raise the emotional tone of society instead of inflicting constant stress on everyone. Why not?

…is to one degree or another a glib as in shallow and incomplete “answer”.

Monetary austerity is not the answer. Monetary abundance that simultneously implements beneficial deflation via a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale and at the retail point of Finance, that is your loan payment, is the answer.

The current FED charter re-inforces the monopoly paradigm of Finance AKA Debt ONLY and hence that charter is the problem. Enabling The FED to fund the above and other aligned policies resolves the problematic effects of the current monopoly.

You can know every jot and tittle of your particular religious orthodoxy, but if the active form of love, that is graciousness, is not in your heart and mind, you’ve missed the point and the greatest experience a human can have.

Likewise, if you are an atheist or agnostic and can analyze every issue to the nth degree, but you neglect to self actualize graciousness you have also equally missed the point.

Contemplating and self actualizing the natural philosophical concept and personal aspects of grace IS THE EXPERIENCE AND THE POINT. DON’T MISS THE POINT AND THE EXPERIENCE.

First operant concepts is deeper and more significant analysis than first principles.

Systemic analysis works fine to identify problems, but conceptual/paradigmatic analysis enlightens and implements solutions. Copernicus required Kepler to make helio-centrism work better than geo-centrism. Your “modern debt jubilee” is a nascent recognition of the new monetary paradigm, but it is only a one off palliative reform where my 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale has aggregative as in macro-economic effect because retail sale is universally participated in and experienced including the retail point of Finance, i.e. your loan payment and so implements continual debt jubilee as well as changes the present monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money of Debt Only by integrating the new paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting into the present system. So I’m your Kepler.

Ty, your reasoning is spot on. There is no ethical justification for murder of an influencer/opinion leader. There might be for a political leader/executive. However, rather than letting authoritarianism and civil war become a reality finding actual and terminal solutions out weigh systemic/problem analysis alone. Charlie Kirk’s success was in his ability to make glib replies appear to be answers to questions that require nuanced analysis.

Strategic Monetary Gifting at retail sale changes everything and drives a stake through the heart of neo-classical macro. A 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale immediately transforms chronic erosive inflation into beneficial deflation because you now get $100 worth of groceries for $50, a $60k EV for $30k and a $500k house for $250k. But wait…what is the retail point of Finance? Your car or mortgage payment…so the central bank also pays 50% of those monthly payments. That policy actually (and finally) beneficially integrates the wholly exterior parasite to the actual productive economy AKA Finance…back into the economy and you get a $60k EV for the equivalent payment of $15k and a $500k house for a payment of only $125k.

Best part of the new monetary paradigm isn’t even fixing economics. Its the transformation of the aggravating/depressing experience of participating in the economy (which EVERYONE must do) into the greatest opportunity to self actualize gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer. Holy Shit! A serendipidous mega-paradigm change! And maybe America can even avoid a looming civil war over its demagogued and unresolved economic, social and political issues.

…the central bank pay a fairly large percentage of everyone’s income taxes, and then tax greedy unjustifiable attempts to increase profit margins and other activities by individuals and commercial agents which cause inflation and/or destabilizing/destructive means of speculation at very high rates and even 100+%?

Economics/economic theory is the only human system that ignores the necessity of behavioral barriers/actual human ethics because it has made a fetish out of “free” market theoretics.

When everything points to disaster…paradigm change is the only way out. In this case the monopoly paradigm wielded by Finance/Private Banking…and even governments of new money must be created ONLY AS DEBT instead of also as simply money strategically distributed where it will resolve the present crisis, namely at the point of retail sale and also directly to the individual. So with the central bank creating the monies distributed for a 50% Gifted Discount/Gifted Rebate policy at retail sale 1) inflation is transformed into beneficial price and asset deflation, and 2) a reasonable universal dividend for everyone 18 years of age and older 3) the economy hums on all multiple trillion cylinders and the rate of debt increase is greatly reduced BECAUSE THE NEW MONEY IS NOT DEBT, BUT SIMPLY MONEY APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE PROBLEM…INCLUDING THE SO CALLED PROBLEM THAT ALL NEW MONEY TO FUND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TAXES AND GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS MUST BE TREASURY BONDS, I.E. “DEBT”.

Have you finally looked at this temporal universe resolution to the DEBT ONLY problem????

Indeed the answer IS more printing, but printing that via the DIRECT AND STRATEGIC DISTRIBUTION of the currency IS THE NEW PARADIGM OF GIFTING INSTEAD OF DEBT ONLY. HENCE IT RESOLVES THE CURRENT PROBLEMS WE ARE FACING INSTEAD OF EXACERBATING THEM. GET IT???

For instance, the solution to any and every middle class person’s problems with lack of demand and chronic inflationary erosion of same is…winning the lottery BECAUSE ITS A VERY SIZABLE MONETARY GIFT INSTEAD OF JUST ADDITIONAL INDEBTEDNESS.