If there is one thing all of the campaign financial donors cannot resist, it is a new monetary paradigm that immediately doubles every person’s purchasing power with a single policy. Steve Hummel 02/01/2025
Posted To Stephanie Kelton’s Substack Newsletter 01/31/2025
Creating and distributing money has always been the route to economic good times and during wars, winning them. Even deeper and more important than that historical fact is awakening to the deepest and longest unresolved economic problem which is the monopolistic monetary paradigm that new money can only be created and distributed as debt, i.e. Debt Only…which the banks wield and the government foolishly affirms. We need to make that fact as conscious as we possibly can, and resolve it by strategically and intelligently integrating the new monetary paradigm of Gifting into the Debt Only system. MMTers are actually late comers to the fact that new money is crerated by accounting entries. C. H. Douglas of the Social Credit movement between the world wars recognized this long before them. Douglas was a very clear minded individual, but like virtually everyone he was still a victim of acculturated false orthodoxies like the classical economic idea of general equillibrium which wed to the monopoly monetary paradigm prevents one from considering the single policy that would be a paradigm change all by itself, namely a 50% Discount (credit to the consumer) at retail sale/Full Rebate (debit to the back to the merchant). This policy mathematically doubles everyone’s purchasing power while implementing beneficial price and asset deflation…because retail sale is the terminal ending point of the entire economic process where production exits the economy and becomes consumption and (my own new macro-economic insight) EVERYONE participates in retail sale so its the single aggregative as in macro-economic point in the entire economic process…and so the perfect place to implement monetary policy. Secure the new monetary paradigm’s benefits by 1) taxing greedflation and any other bogus “increase” in costs at a rate of 100%, 2) index the retail discount/rebate to any legitimate inflationary cost increases 3) regulate with the additional policies in my book “Wisdomics-Gracenomics: The New Monetary Paradigm and It Policies” that rebutt orthodox critiques and resolve the other anomalies of the current paradigm.
Where is MMT on this?
MMT is a good reform bucking the same civilization-long moral and intellectual acculturation around the concept of debt. However, they need to up their game to paradigmatic analysis because reforms are always palliatives with half lives of decades or less and new paradigms are deep and permanent systemic-wide changes. The simplicity of new key applied ideas have always been where the power actually is. That may be an affront to the intellectual vanities of the erudite, but its historical fact.
The best way to explain a new concept is to find the places and ways to implement it in the world that the individual can easily experience for themselves. Thats what the 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale and 50% Gift of Interest/Debt jubilee at point of loan signing does in spades because everyone participates in retail sale and increasingly in things like mortgages.
If you’re for free profit-making markets you can’t be for a monopoly paradigm wielded by a single business model and delusionally acquiest in by the government. If you do you’d have to say that The Reformation was wrong for breaking up the monopoly paradigm the Roman Catholic church had on salvation via its sacraments ONLY.
The issue that the general populace cares about is inflation. Hence, end inflation forever by implementing the two 50% price reduction and debt jubilee policies I suggest at retail sale and point of loan signing, and tax any increase in final costs that is a fraud at a rate of 100%…and proceed to a liberal progressive political coalition greater than The New Deal.
Integrating a new monetary paradigm of Gifting into the debt, as in burden to pay/repay Only system, makes keeping Social Security flush much easier. Why? Because what is the payment/retail point for your social security insurance? Thats right, the payroll tax that comes out of your wages. With the 50% Discount/Rebate policy that amount is reduced by…50%, thus saving you money.
The combination of the 50% retail discount and another policy that aligns with the new monetary paradigm, i.e. a UBI/universal dividend of say $1000/mo. enables us to not only half the individual cost of social security they also make welfare and unemployment insurance completely redundant…because if every adult gets a $1000 monthly dividend that with the 50% retail discount policy means they have $2000/mo. worth of purchasing power…so then the payroll taxes for these services, that both employees and emplyers pay, can be eliminated.
Just another example of how a monetary mega-paradigm change integrates the self interests of traditionally opposed constituencies.
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Thats because you’re not doing the simple math of equal debits and credits that sum to zero at the strategic points I suggest is done. $100 worth of groceries minus 50% is $50 and yet with the rebate the merchant gets their full price. $100 worth of social security insurance premium minus $50 with the 50% discount means you get an extra $50 net income on your paycheck and yet $100 goes to fund social security.
Here’s another mind blowing truth that the new monetary paradigm enlightens: Accounting/double entry bookkeeping with its equal debits and credits that sum to zero operation is actually reflective of the quantum reality where particles pop in and out of existence.
I’m the one trying to actually resolve problems and explode delusions with a paradigm change instead of offering up palliative reforms like MMT. And Rube Goldberg describes the current system that is actually just a double bind in disguise overseen by Finance and The FED’s ham handed monetary policies that punish way too much, way to long and from which only the wealthy oligarchs and the banks emerge unscathed.
THE SOLUTION IS ALL ABOUT A NEW MONETARY PARADIGM!
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No, its algebra, i.e. -5 + 5= 0, and accounting equal debits and credits that sum to zero, and a new macro-economic/aggregative insight that EVERYONE participates in/is the effect of price at retail sale and so it is the perfect place to implement monetary policy, and last but not least its paradigmology which is my own new body of knowledge whose primary insights are 1) historically every new paradigm is in complete conceptual opposition to the current anomalous paradigm concept, which incidentally also makes it harder for people to perceive because the acculturation process is largely an unconscious accepting process for the mass of individuals, and in the modern age of science which highly values logic its an additional hurdle for intellects to wrap their heads around, and 2) the mental and temporal universe effects of every historical paradigm change have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace.
Posted To Steve Keen’s Podcast 01/25/2025
The banks are obviously the most powerful entities in the economy because their “product” is money as in debt and as you say capitalism is about money and its accumulation. But what is even more powerful than even their systemic dominance? Its their ability to wield a monopoly paradigm concept of Debt ONLY for the creation and distribution of all new money which they wield, and this monpoly concept is unconsciously accepted, because it has been acculturated for the entire course of human civilization. All paradigms are foggy realities for the individual for this reason and because they are like breathing, i.e. they are essential and powerful realities but we’re generally unconscious of them until we can’t breath or the entire economy freezes up because debt obligations/”innovations” cannot be met.
All new paradigm concepts are in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm like central/not central (Copernican cosmological paradigm), tribal nomadic hunting and gathering/homesteading, urbanization, nation states and agriculture (Small decentralized to large organizational civilization) Money creation ONLY as Debt as in the burden to repay ONLY to New money as both Debt and as strategically economically integrated Monetary Gifting.
Posted To Stephanie Kelton’s Substack Newsletter 01/24/2025
Unfortunately economists have not perceived the primary reason for inflation which is the human civilization-long monetary paradigm of Debt Only as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of new money wed to the largely delusional body of free market theoretics which is a complete misnomer for what it actually is which is alternately goosed and strangled and continually dominating monetary/financial chaos. The proof of this, which has been repeated many times historically according to Ms Kelton’s colleague Michael Hudson and others, is the great financial recession of 2008 where finance’s “innovation” screws up the economy and then they are bailed out while the individual is forced to “go scratch”.
A new monetary paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting strategically integrated into the Debt Only system with the same accounting operations the banks use to create money only as debt, namely equal debits and credits that sum to zero, specifically at retail sale with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy and a 50% Gift of Interest/Debt Jubilee at point of loan signing and the spell of finance’s monopoly monetary paradigm is ended while the individual’s purchasing power is mathematically doubled, chronic erosive inflation is transformed into beneficial price and asset deflation and the delusion of free market theorietics is replaced by universally abundant monetary free flowingness which is the goal of economic theory. A few more regulatory and taxation tweeks with real teeth, and the new monetary paradigm is a temporal universe reality observed and experienced by all.
Introducing: The National Bank of Monetary Gifting
Which will both gift the individual and commercial agent with a 50% debt jubilee and an interest rate no higher than 3% if their credit is good and they cannot get such rate from a private bank.
Competition is an economic virtue, paradigm changes are virtually universally progressive phenomena and monopoly paradigms are by definition domineering and hence unethical.
The Serendipitous Thing About Discovering The New Monetary Paradigm
Discovering that the applications/policies of the new monetary paradigm was actually ALSO the greatest opportunity for virtually everyone to self actualize gratitude since meditation and prayer.
And why? Because the concept behind every historical paradigm change is grace as in:
1) discovery/cognition, increased awareness,
2) trinity/unity/greater integrative oneness and resolution of duality/problems/opposites, AKA Wisdom,
3) love as in integrative, unitary, dynamic and satisfying personal action…and as policies are the actions of systems, the application of the relevant aspect of grace in our temporal universe systems, bodies of knowledge and areas of human endeavor, i.e. the unity of the opposites of the mental and temporal, and
4) as serendipity is the unexpected windfall and an aspect of grace, the seeming opposites of money and spirituality are aligned and integrated by the aspect of grace relevant to the monetary system…which is gifting…which action elicits the aspect of grace known as gratitude.
Simply Leveraging Up Does Not Recieve Any Discount Or Rebate…
…unless it is for an actually productive purpose and/or aligns with energy research and ecologically sane goals. Purely financial speculation like shorting or for derivative craziness like in 2008 will not be supported by and are contrary to the goals and purposes of the new monetary paradigm.
Posted To Steve Keen’s Podcast 01/11//2025
The new monetary paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting and the twin policies of a 50% Discount/rebate policy at retail sale and an additional 50% Gift of interest to the banks/50% Debt Jubilee at point of loan signing will enable the consumer to purchase a $500k house for $125k and all agents get their full price. The new monetary paradigm and money creation via the accounting operations of equal debits and credits that sum to zero resolves the housing crisis, chronic inflation and chronic inadequate individual demand. TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC THEORY IS ALL ABOUT THE NEW MONETARY PARADIGM!
The ultimate means of financial regulation is the new monetary paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting strategically implented at retail sale and point of loan signing. Finance owns the joint because they wield a MONOPOLY paradigm for the creation and distribution of ALL new money AKA Debt ONLY.
The New Monetary Paradigm Undercuts All Economic Theory
Why? Because money is the very enabling tool of the economy, and monetary profits are the strongest impulse of capitalism. Thus, as the new monetary paradigm is Gifting it increases both economic activity and potential profits.
The new monetary paradigm resolves the major problems of the system under the current anomalous paradigm most importantly our energy and ecological problems, because the increased individual and commercial monetary and economic security resolves the current conflicts to rational action of cost, price and profitability.
The Point Of Monetary Gifting…
…is not conspicuous or even necessarily additional consumption, but rather individual monetary security, systemic economic stability and most importantly, the opportunity to greatly increase the self actualization of grace as in gratitude.