Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog 01/02/2026

Like every current economic problem a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at the retail/exchnge point of the problem…is the solution. So just have the central bank pay 50% of everyone’s monthly social security payment and the trust fund is secured until basically forever. If the FED can inject hundreds of billions of free debtless dollars into a handful of too big to fail banks in a matter of days as I posted here they did a few days ago…then they could do the same for the human civilization-long neglected individual economic agent at the various retail/exchange points throughout the economy…and resolve inflation, potentially double the demand for every enterprise’s goods and services and prevent the Debt Only paradigm wielded by the banking/money system from serially de-stabilizing the economy since forever. You want beneficial deflation like every libertarian says they do? Then implement a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale and get $100 of groceries for $50, a $60k EV for $30k and a $500k house for $250k…and avoid all of the pain of allowing the current way deflation occurs and that libertarians tend to overlook. You want tax cuts? Then have the FED fund a reasonable universal dividend of say $1000/mo. to everyone 18 years of age and older…not with treasuries/debt instruments but as electronic cash. Then who needs the payroll taxes for welfare and unemployment insurance? Make the 50% retail Discount include sales taxes and you’ve increased the funding to non-sovereign governments decentralizing and increasing their ability to provide infrastructure etc.

So many solutions…if one only opens their mind and looks at the effects of the new monetary and economic paradigm instead of only computing on orthodoxies that paradigm invalidates.

JD: What you are proposing would result in roughly 20% yoy inflation for several years, a net loss to “beneficiaries”.

Me: Being able to purchase $100 worth of groceries for $50 is a funny kind of inflation. And of course you expose yourself as a liberatarian moral and ethical moron by not recognizing (or not carring) that individual commercial agent inflation is actually an anti-social act. It also exposes the fact that “free” market theoretics isn’t free at all but rather the chaotic delusion of COMPLETE FREEDOM…including the freedom to commit unethical behavior. The minds of terminally orthodox libertarians live on a different planet than other humans do where ethics are real and necessary. And your problem is solved by allowing commercial agents to increase their prices 2-3% per annum and any revenue they may garner from higher inflation is taxed at a rate of at least 100%. There is only freedom amongst know and enforceable barriers

Posted To Dave Foulkes’ Substack Newsletter 01/01/2026

Great analysis Dave. Most of that list encompasses some of the aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace (not to be necessarily associated with religion-you’ll pardon the expression: god save us from the gross moralists and the religious obsessives) which just so happens to also be the character of the beneficial effects of every historical paradigm change. The significance of the aspects of the concept of grace is the most important and underlying discovery of Paradigmology. Paradigm change is what we all want because its permanently beneficial, integrative of opposites to the point of a true synthesis/thirdness greater oneness of the best aspects of seeming unresolvable dualities, i.e. a trinitarian result. Like Capitalism vs socialism—> Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

The Three Prongs of Wisdomics-Gracenomics

  1. A new monetary and economic paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting
  2. Known and enforceable economic barriers…that actually create more freedom than current “free” Market theoretics
  3. Strict regulation and even elimination of anti-social speculative financial actions like naked shorting and derivative debt rehypothecation

We Need To Fulfill Our Species Designation of Homo Sapiens…Finally

We are homo sapiens, wise and discerning man. But we need to discern and practice the intellectual discipline of wisdom much more which goes beyond science which is reductionist, increasingly merely dualistic and so ultimately inhibitive of wisdom which is the trinitarian search for resolving factors.

Wisdom has always been associated with “the third way”. That is it integrates and resolves dualities to the point of thirdness greater oneness. What is the guiding concept of wisdom? Its grace as in unity, transformation, process as in the continuing experience and flow of present time itself and loving and increased consciousness/insight as in graciousness. Contemplate and apply the aspects of grace and “you cannot put a foot wrong”.

Monetary Grace As In Gifting: The Ultimate Transformational Expression of Mutual Aid

It facilitates every aspect of mutuality/dual benefit including trinitarian/thirdness greater oneness which has always been a signature of wisdom in that it not only reforms it transforms a system that was dominating, oligarchic and unstable it into one that is ethical, democratic and more stable than it ever has been before. Its a true paradigm change in economics and the money system. One that is neither capitalism nor socialism, but a true Wisdomics-Gracenomics. So be it.

Posted To The DemystifySci Podcast With Steve Keen 12 /28/2025

You can be right in every way about the problems of the economy and the money system as Keen is, but if you fail to perceive or even try to analyze the present key APPLIED concept (read paradigm) creating and enforcing its anomalous realities (the continual build up of Private Debt) nothing you suggest to remedy the problem will ever be anything but a palliative reform that Finance will readily game and thwart, or if you’re a neoclassical economist re-inforce those anomalies. Go for the gusto and find the most efficacious applcations of the exact new monetary and economic paradigm of Direct, Reciprocal and Strategic Monetary Gifting like a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale…and lets reverse the inevitable collapse of the world economy and avoid the chaos and likelihood of a world war as a result.

In the temporal/time universe there is no ultimate equilibrium…because time itself is an emergent quality…of change. That doesn’t mean there can’t be permanent progress brought about by the increased insight/new realization AKA a paradigm change…but at some point you have to switch from using the excellent but mere systemic form of analysis and analyze the problem conceptually/paradigmatically …because its a deeper, broader and permanently progressive APPLIED phenomenon. Systemic analysis is excellent, necessary and intellectually delicious and it exists entirely within the digestive tract of the wisdom of conceptual/paradigmatic analysis.

Mission Statement

I’m not here to necessarily demonize the filthy rich or the filthy rich and powerful bankers…only to make them finally relate in an ethical way instead of surreptisously dominating every other individual and commercial agent with their monopoly monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money also known as Debt ONLY.

To the erudite intellectual dunces, the cynics, the bought or fearful politicians and the long-acculturated general populace who have never been given a break since day one of human civilization I say: “Remember the truest of political truisms: “People vote their pocket books” and the mathematical fact that they who would object to integrating the new monetary paradigm of Gifting into the Debt ONLY system are few and we are many.”

Steve Hummel 12/28/2025

Every One Of Our Systems Should…

…align its temporal universe actions/operations so that its effects create the systemically relevant aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace. Grace, grace, grace, its the highest spiritual experience, the key to thirdness greater oneness unification of temporal universe problems, the most basic cosmological reality and hence its fruits should logically be the goal of every individual and every human system’s effects.

Steve Hummel 12/27/2025

New Way To Create The 50% Discount/Rebate At The Retail Point of Finance

Just enable the banks to create a 50% GIFT of money TO THEMSELVES as half payment of everyone’s monthly mortgage, automobile, insurance or other big ticket item including of course the taxes, insurance, interest and any other additional costs included in any escrow account.

In essence the banks dissolve their own monopoly paradigm…but to their own benefit (increased security, stability and broadening of their market).

Ironies abound…with an actual paradigm change! Why? Because paradigm changes are and always have been complete inversions of conceptual, temporal and personal mental realities.

Posted To Bijou’s Substack 12/26/2025

Every economic woe you are expressing can be remedied by a change in the monetary paradigm from Debt ONLY to Debt AND Monetary Gifting. Why does Finance have the right to wield a destabilizing monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money??? It doesn’t obviously, any more than the Catholic church had the right to their monopoly paradigm for salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY. We need a monetary Reformation.

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Yes, it needs to be worked on and is wonderfully accomplished by the single policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale which mathematically doubles everyone’s purchasing power while simultaneously tarnsforming chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation. I’m not advocating for Monetary Gifting ONLY which would just be another monopoly paradigm. I’m advocating for integrating Monetary Gifting STRATEGICALLY into the Debt ONLY system so as to create a thirdness greater oneness out of the dualistic futility of palliating (progressives), ignoring (capitalists) or worshipping (libertarians) the present paradigm and in fact the entire corpus of “free” market theoretics which is a misnomer for the non-resolving chaos that results from not having known and enforceable barriers between which one can rationally craft ethics. There is no such thing as TOTAL freedom (read an unworkable and ethic-less framework which is what “free” market theoretics actually enforces….unless of course we perceive and resolve the core of the core problem which is the present monetary paradigm that all new money can ONLY be created as debt. And here is the way to keep oneself on the straight and narrow path toward achieving the new paradigm with the key insights of Paradigmology:

1) Historically new paradigms are always in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm

2) Historically new paradigms create resolving thirdnesses greater onenesses of problematic dualities and

3) Historically the beneficial effects of every paradigm change have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace like greater abundance, greater freedom, greater unity, new realizations, inversions of both personal and temporal universe reality, etc. etc.

So lets work for a Wisdomics-Gracenomics of which the insights of MMT are a nascent awakening to.