The Three Levels of Economic Cognition

I. Conscious awareness of the costing/pricing system of commerce, i.e. money circulating within the economy always becomes business revenue which is always expensed and consequently, as a systemic flow, reduced in ratio to the flow of total costs and so prices.

II. Equilibrium is a mere orthodoxy without the understanding of Time, its dynamic moment to moment flow and the scarcity ratio of individual incomes to costs/prices in I.

III. The concept and experience of Grace is synonymous with Consciousness and composed of both Duality Integrated and Trinity-Unity-Transformation, and amongst other things always expressive of abundance, balanced flow, increased freedom and ethical elevation.

The Cosmic Code: Both-Andness (Integration/Wisdom) and Bothness-Andness/Trinity-Unity (Transformation/Ethical Elevation)

Bothness-Andness/Trinity-Unity is Both-Andness (Integration/Wisdom) plus the addition of human Self Awareness-Consciousness  and/or an aspect of same. Thus Space-Time is a Both-Andness, an integration of Space and Time, while Space-Time and Human Self Awareness is a Bothness-Andness/Trinity-Unity (Space-Time and Self Awareness). Bothness-Andness/Trinity-Unity is thus not just an abstraction, an idea, mere philosophy or sophistry, but an elevated and transformational experience.

Likewise a policy that is both spacio-temporally integrated and valid and sufficiently integrative and reflective of human Self Awareness-Consciousness will be unitary, transformative and ethically elevative (as human Self Awareness-Consciousness unavoidably entails the ethical consideration of any action/policy).

Post To Steve Keen’s YouTube Video 08/20/2016

Keen came close to what I’ve been telling him for a couple of years in the video right before this one on his youtube channel. He said: “…it’s the ratio between debt and individual incomes” that is significant. Actually and macro-economically (that’s what Keen is, a macro-economist) its the ratio between total costs/prices, and total individual incomes that enlightens. Modern economies INHERENTLY create a higher rate of flow of total costs than they simultaneously distribute in individual incomes with which to liquidate those costs/prices. And as the cost accounting convention that ALL costs must go into price is always (and correctly) enforced that means the system is cost inflationary by nature. So the only way to equilibrate that ratio is to implement policies that costlessly increase individual incomes and costlessly lower prices. And the only way in a monetary economy that you can do that is to integrate monetary grace as in Gifting directly to the individual and also directly to enterprise. And that is why a universal dividend and a rebated back to merchants retail discount to consumers are the pinpointing solutions to our current economic stagnation. wisdomicsblog.com

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You should concentrate on forming/backing a grass roots level movement for economic and monetary policy change. It’s a complete waste of time and effort to try to convince other economists of their outnesses when they have very strong ego involvement in maintaining their present thinking. Likewise politicians are famous for both lack of creativity and the character trait of courage so they are poor candidates to look to for alliances. TV programs? As we see here they are firmly stuck in the obsessive contention mindset so they are not productive of change either. Look to Ghandi and MLK, Jr., they had the right idea and the right actions. The Powell Memo is also prescient, and the ideas in the New Powell Memo are monetary Grace as in Gifting, directness as in simultaneity and immediacy of policy effect, free as in costlessness and individual monetary abundance and
freedom as opposed to the niggardly austerity that afflicts “thinkers” in nearly every field.

Reply to Mish Shedlock 08/18/2016

Mish:  I do not understand what you mean by “Why not fix both the scarcity of individual incomes and inflation with the dual book end policies of a universal dividend and a deflationary discount to retail prices”

Whatever that means, I am 99% sure to disagree since it implies someone other than the free market setting prices.

Me:  A discount at the point of retail sale that is totally rebated back to the merchant granting it IS THE FREE MARKET AT WORK AND HAS NOT MANIPULATED THE MARKET IN ANY WAY BECAUSE POINT OF RETAIL SALE IS THE TERMINAL END OF THE ENTIRE ECONOMIC/PRODUCTIVE PROCESS AND ALL COSTS ARE SUMMED AT THAT POINT.

Please think about that fact, and also realize that this policy would integrate Austrian deflationary thinking into profit making systems without enforcing increased austerity on a system already inherently cost inflationary because as capital costs become more intense in a modern economy those additional costs on top of financial costs etc…..must go into price….and yet even under the most ideal conditions (which never actually exist either) only the amount of money financed is created and available to become individual income.

Peterblogdanovich:   A debt jubilee a la Steve Keen will dramatically shrink banking and finance. This is enough hell for them to to pay for now. All of us participated in the asset flipping mentality that brought us here. If you’re sin (and debt, and asset) free you’re likely poor. I’m just not eager to do anything more than shrinking financial sector profits from 25% of total private profits now down to 3% to 5% max where they belong. To a banker that’s a circle of hell in its own right.

Me:  Keen’s modern debt jubilee is a necessary thing presently, but it is only a one off when a truly systemic solution is what is required. Keen himself has called for a new economic philosophy, but he’s never advocated anything but one off or fragmented and partial policies. A universal dividend and a rebated retail discount to consumers are both macro-economic, systemic policies….and just happen to directly strike death blows to the two major systemic problems of modern economies, namely their chronic scarcity of individual incomes in ratio to prices and creeping inflation. They also just happen to break up the monopolistic paradigms of debt and loan ONLY which the Banking system enjoys despite monopoly being utterly inconsistent with free market theory. In Keen’s most recent video he has changed his assessment of the problem being “parabolically rising debt” to “parabolic debt in ratio to individual income”. Listen to his latest video yourself. It starts at about the 1:15 point. I have been saying this same thing here and on Keen’s blog and youtube video for at least the last 9-10 years. As I have said here many times Keen and Mish are nascent social crediters. Every cutting edge reform movement including Keen’s “modern debt jubilee” includes in its policy recommendations an aspect of the linguistic and philosophical concept of Grace. My book Wisdomics/Gracenomics unifies all of these reform movements as well as integrates supposedly opposing theories by fully fleshing out that concept and showing its economic and monetary relevance to our current crisis and the system as it actually is.

Regarding Mish Shedlock’s reasons for blogging about self driving cars

Me:  Mish is prescient when it comes to seeing significant economic factors, and my guess is he thinks innovation and AI will force deflation…and he’s right about that. However, if there’s another inherent factor that is destabilizing modern economies namely that the rate of flow of total costs always tends to exceed the rate of flow of total individual incomes then the economy will eventually collapse anyway and never, ever be stable in the process. Mish’s buddy Steve Keen said it several years age when he said “Last time I looked someone could get their economics degree without taking so much as an elementary accounting course.” Only problem is Keen’s mathematics never penetrates below the surface of accounting and its debits and credits and basic formula of assets plus liabilities equals owners equity. What a truly empirical researcher would do is get into the cost accounting stats of every enterprise and compare them with individual incomes simultaneously produced and that would enlighten them as to the real and deepest problem of modern economies as stated above. If Mish would see that my integration of Austrian deflationary theory into profit making systems is precisely what is needed he’d become wise and far seeing.

Mish:  We have discounts already
Amazon – Walmart – senior citizen, everywhere

Me:  Correct, but they are not macro-economic discounts but rather piecemeal ones, and not enough of a discount to integrate deflation into an inherently cost inflationary system. If the monthly flow of total/systemic costs is 5% and the monthly flow of total/systemic individual incomes is 2%….the system and every enterprise and individual in it has an inherent cost inflationary problem. With my policies we can costlessly and unobtrusively increase individual purchasing power and turn the vector of the entire economy around from inflationary to deflationary. And on top of that we can downsize the TBTF Banks so that they take their smaller and proper place in the economy…instead of being the dominating and manipulating force they have been for at least the last several centuries.

And all it takes to see how this is a necessity is

1) to take the empirical data (total individual incomes produced in ratio to total costs for the same period of time) from the cost accounting books of any modern enterprise which reveals the scarcity ratio I’ve posted about here for so long, and

2) realize that a macro-economic i.e. general discount to prices at retail sale (and in addition to any other discounts a business may want to competitively give) AND THAT IS FULLY REBATED BACK TO THE MERCHANT GIVING THE MACRO DISCOUNT eliminates any possibility of inflation, creates a deflationary and yet more profitable system, corrects the unethical dominance of the Banks, is not price controls because the merchant is free to determine his best price BEFORE the discount is applied and in addition to any other discounts he may want to grant and finally that no economic agent can be harmed by it because retail sale is the end of the productive process….and has become consumption.

Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog 08/18/2016

“People are not “mindlessly angry”. They are angry because they have been ripped off by the Fed, by their governments, and by ignorant media jackasses who are clueless about why there is so much anger.”

Absolutely right Mish. The world is less and less willing to factor active compassion into the economic calculus which just happens to be a perfect definition of the concept and experience of Grace which is Love IN ACTION. Maybe if economists and their pundits tried doing that with economic and monetary theory and policy people would be more happy and understanding….and modern economies would tend toward greater freedom and stability…….ya know what I mean?!

Obsession With Employment: The Indicator of An Economic Theorist’s Orthodox Stupidity

Economists can’t think through and decipher the truthfulness or untruthfulness of traditional economic and monetary factors. So how are they supposed to even be aware of entirely new and different ones like Grace as in Gifting?  Everywhere theorists and pundits do a tremendous figure-figure-figure with numbers etc. about employment and unemployment….and can’t see that monetary Gifting and adapting to leisure solves every economic problem that has plagued modern economies for over a century. How stupid and blind can they be?  The modern mind thinks it is enlightened. Actually it is very hide bound to orthodoxies that have been an increasing hindrance to mankind for more than two thousand years. The so called curse of Adam that “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,” has been being lifted by technology for at least that long and yet all theorists can do is try to create more and more work for pay only.  Why not try to think integratively by including both work for pay and monetary Grace as in Gifting? (The words both and and should be thought and uttered continually until they are the most integral part of a theorist’s mindset.) After all Wisdom is the very process of the mental integration of all relevant and workable factors of a situation so that thought and deed, philosophy and policy are also integrated and become a third, more workable, more unified and more ethical whole.  Then if theorists do not account for all of an economy’s costs correctly (as they currently don’t) and technology and artificial intelligence are ever more rapidly eroding aggregate individual incomes, it might occur to them to combine, to integrate employment and monetary Grace. Such is the entire difference between Wisdom and stupidity.

Personal Quote

We and the world are full of magic…literally. It’s just that being habitually and only scientific we’ve apparently dulled it down so much that we can’t actually experience it as such.                                                                                                   Steve Hummel 08/17/2016

Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog (just in case he’s reading it) After Being Banned

You and Keen are too stupid and too hide bound to your various orthodoxies to see that aggregate demand is ever more rapidly disappearing at a rate 10 times higher than the system has ever replaced jobs before and that Deflation can be integrated into profit making systems. You’ll both see it and claim you knew it was the right thing to do all the time…if we’re smart. If we’re not both of you might be dead living in or near a major metropolitan area. I advise you to wise up, swallow your pride and survive by advocating the right policies.

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“Why is government in the job guarantee business at all?”

Mostly because AI and innovation are eroding aggregate individual income at such a high rate that the economy will never stabilize until you finance consumption with a universal dividend and reduce prices with a retail discount. This will also end the unethical domination and manipulation of the business model of Finance which has been allowed to continue for literally centuries and whose significance is missed by the ethically challenged and the paradigmatically hypnotized….ya know what I mean?

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Regarding Self Driving Cars and Missing The Real Point:

You still miss the most relevant economic and monetary issue of the erosion of aggregate individual incomes that innovation and AI are going to effect, and of course you (and Keen) miss the INHERENT cost inflationary nature of modern economies. At least Keen has waded through all of the current dogmas and recognizes that austerity is wrong, but he still misses the deeper actual cause of inflation. You, apparently still have your Austrian/Libertarian hypnotism preventing that.

Speech To Small Business Community/Consumers

For Businessmen:  Suppose I told you there was a way to increase the available money in consumer’s hands to buy your products and services, to enable you to reduce your prices by 40-50% and yet make more profit than you’ve probably ever made, eliminate your business costs for welfare, unemployment insurance and eventually even for social security and finally not only eliminate inflation, but have permanent price deflation that still fit seamlessly within profit making systems. Would you be interested in any of that?

For Consumers:  Suppose I told you there was a way to put $1500-2000 per month into everyone 18 and older’s hands every month in addition to whatever they made via employment and was available to everyone whether they worked or not, that there was also a way to reduce prices by 40-50% further raising your purchasing power, that enabled you more free time and more choice in what you wanted to do with your life, that would enable every college kid to live independently from their parents and in the vast majority of cases not have to borrow any money at all to go to school and finally that actually lowered your taxes and if you’re a small to medium sized businessman actually enable you to make more profit to boot. Would you be interested in any of that?

Good. Let’s see how we’re going to do this.

As businessmen, most of whom started out with a loan in order to begin your business, you know that not only do you have to pay the Bank more than you borrowed , but you also have to replace your productive equipment and facilities as well as pay for lots of other expenses that were not a part of that original loan.  Now the cost accounting convention that all costs must go into price is also a reality that you may or may not be aware of, but unless your accountant is a former employee of Enron he or she can confirm to you that it is an enforced fact. What that convention thus tells you is that as a flow your enterprise, and every enterprise, creates more costs and thus requires more total prices than it has ever distributed to individuals including your management team and yourself…as incomes. If you’re very hard working, smart and probably also lucky, because the system is very difficult if not onerous…then you may make a profit and survive.  But what does this enforced reality of costs/prices are greater than individual incomes distributed mean so far as the system is concerned?

It means the system as a whole, the macro economy…is unstable due to it being cost inflationary ( that is costs/prices exceed individual incomes to liquidate production) and that consequently it won’t clear, it cannot actually clear as a system. And so eventually the wheels fall off the system…and your enterprise suffers or goes out of business as well…because its a part of that system…That is it will suffer and possibly go out of business unless there are ways implemented to increase individual incomes that don’t burden you the businessman with an additional cost and that also keeps prices down too.

So here is how that would work:

First let me lay a little mental ground work here. Freedom is freedom, and policies that effect both individual monetary freedom and systemic free flowingness are by description and by logic, ….freeing.  A = A as the logical syllogism goes.

Hence a policy of monetary gifting can increase individual incomes that are scarce without increasing costs,as a gift does not require re-payment. 

Now someone probably just said, “Ah, but that would cause inflation.”  But what if a gift of a discount to the individual consumer by retail merchants that was reciprocally gifted back to the retail merchant?  This reciprocal gifting adds no additional costs to the merchant or to the system and also prevents inflation because of the discount to retail prices.   Now such a discount mechanism, because it is based on aggregate costs is a macro-economic tool, and also because of where it takes effect which is at retail sale where total costs for every item or service is terminally summed it can also be made to create proactive price deflation…even within a profit making system…because you could totally reduce the average 40% of costs caused by interest because such discounts the Banks would give consumers they would be rebated back. Also, you could totally reduce the large percentage of transfer taxes that businesses and individuals pay because again the universal Dividend mechanism could totally compensate for those costs.

Again, retail sale is the terminal end of the economic/productive process so no enterprise is punished by a discount at that ending point…especially because  those discounts are fully rebated back to them. Finally, as the discount only occurs after an actual sale of goods or services…it cannot result in too much money chasing too little goods.

Now what are some of the additional advantages to both the worker/consumer and the businessman to such policies?

Well, first of all it puts a lot more money costlessly into the system making it much more likely that the consumer will have income available to purchase your products or services.

Secondly, as just shown, if the universal Dividend payment and discount percentage are are high enough….the taxes that both individuals and businesses pay for unemployment insurance, welfare and eventually even for Social Security….immediately become redundant and unnecessary.  How much moreprofit would you make if you didn’t have to pay those taxes? A lot more profits is the quick and correct answer.

The truth is Dividend and Discount policies would immediately create more profits for business, more freedom for individuals and more reduction in government bureaucracy than the utterly contentious and mutually stymieing political  agendas on both the left and right have been unable to accomplish….since forever!

Integrating Gifting into the economic and money systems  with such policies is “all good” for both the businessman and the individual.  And it’s also good for the society as a whole. For instance, if we didn’t have to worry about unemployment due to the Dividend and Discount mechanisms  and businesses were making more profit….the economy could re-industrialize and become more whole and self sufficient than sending all of that production over seas which hollows the economy out and creates a lot of costs for transportation of  foreign production back to us. Another way we all benefit is the abundant and additional incomes distributed by the Dividend and Discount would enable a lot more families to  have the option, if they chose to do so, of only one parent having to work, or perhaps only work part time enabling more quality time parenting. It’s about time theorists stopped pretending that parenting has no value both to society and ultimately to the economy. It’s actually more noble and just as valuable as entrepreneurial-ism.

So what stands in the way of these relatively simple and yet very powerful policies from becoming a reality? The biggest and most obvious obstacle is undoubtedly the Too Big To Fail Banking monopoly and their allies in industry and government. Why? Because these policies strike at the heart of their financial monopoly powers of credit creation and their utterly restrictive control over the variety of vehicles for credit distribution. In other words they don’t want anyone other than themselves creating money and they particularly do not want money distributed as a gift because they do not make any profit from monetary Gifting….even if it sets both the individual free and makes the system free flowing which is precisely what I have just shown you these policies would do.  But my question both to them and to you is: Where does it say in free market theory….that only one business model can create money and only in the form of a loan ….is perfectly okay?  No where of course is the correct answer. In fact such a state of affairs is a complete outrage that honest and well meaning individuals should rise up against and then implement the policies that will bring freedom! 

And this is where an integrated and focused alliance of small to medium sized businessmen, which is the vast majority of the total business community, and consumers which is everyone, can have an immediate and very powerful social and political effect. And that is why I am asking you to read and think about these policies with an open mind, contribute to what I refer to as Project Monetary Wisdom and Grace and help me develop the mass social movement that can herd the entirety of the political apparatus toward implementing these abundantly freeing, constructive and graciously powerful policies.

As caring Americans we all want more unification and progress toward a better life for all. These policies can make that happen. God bless the American people and the nation they wisely and graciously want it to become.

The Idiocy of The Mindset of Economic Austerity

Lack of Shipping Demand Sends Big Ships to Scrap Heap (Trucking Next!)

The above blog post by Mish Shedlock about the virtual elimination of long haul trucking employment and the same trend in shipping got this response from me:

Only the terminally orthodox do not see the universal dividend and retail discount policies “handwriting on the wall”.

Orthodoxy blinds. Some people will literally have to see all production secured behind walls and purchased only by a small fraction of those with any purchasing power before they see the efficacy of integrating abundant monetary gifting into our present system.