Posted To Steve Keen’s YouTube Video 01/20/2026

Absolutely no argument with your assessment of neo-classical macro’s characterization of the money creation process. Problem is, enlightening that fact may enable clearer thinking about the matter and even effect some palliative reforms…but it won’t solve the biggest problem of money creation which is that the banks wield the monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money, that is the APPLIED CONCEPT of Debt Only. This enables the banks to dominate every other economic agent both commercial and individual because the wonderful tool of money after all is both the agent of economic action and the very means of survival itself. So how stupid is it that we allow the banks to wield such MONOPOLISTIC POWER? Its obvious that Finance has been standing astride the world like a collossus since forever, first by the palace and now by the banks…and that will continue even if we invalidate neo-classicalism’s fallacies…because long standing paradigms, MOST especially monopoly paradigms are dominating and gather anomalies UNTIL someone figures out what the new paradigm is and how to most efficaciously APPLY it.

So like what we did with The Holy Roman Catholic Church dominating everyone with the paradigm of Salvation Via Catholic Sacraments ONLY we need to break up The Holy Modern Church of Private Banking’s Monetary Paradigm of Debt ONLY.

A few suggestions: 1a) Recognize that historically every new paradigm has always been in complete conceptual opposition to the present anomalous paradigm so in this case its from Debt Only to Strategic Monetary Gifting which is in the required complete conceptual opposition but also still allows lending but breaks up the monopoly aspect of the present paradigm 1b) give every economic agent both individual and commercial an account at the central bank 2a) Implement a 50% Discount to the consumer/Rebate back to the commercial agent policy at retail sale and mandate that the central bank rebate the monetary gifts to make the commercial agents whole on their gifted discounts to the consumer which policy inverts the chronic realities of inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation 2b) do the same policy at the retail point of Finance which is one’s monthly mortgage, automobile, insurance or other big ticket item payment. 3) check out a bunch of other policies that stabilize and secure the new monetary paradigm to the benefit of all…even the banks here: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdomics-Gracenomics-New-Monetary-Paradigm-Policies/dp/B08X7MZ4KH/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552358772&sr=1-1-catcorr

Posted To Steve Keen’s Substack Newsletter 01/15/2026

Instead of a provably fallacious orthodoxy of equilibrium how about implementing a continuously graceful and stable flow of the economy and yet wherein you can have controllable cyclical ups and downs…with a policy that has aggregative as in macro-economic effect…because the aggregate of EVERYONE participates in and/or is effected by it, namely a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale…utilizing the exact same tool and process that virtually all new money is created and distributed by presently, namely double entry bookkeeping? Here’s a list of some of the beneficial and problem resolving effects of this single policy:

1) It transforms chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation for the consumer and yet with the rebate aspect of the problem it guarantees the merchant gets their entire price.

2) It immediately and continuously doubles the potential purchasing power of the individual and hence the potential demand for every enterprise’s goods and services thus ending chronic austerity of individual demand while integrating the up until now opposed self interests of merchant and consumer.

3) It invalidates Freidman’s dictum regarding inflation and the Quantity Theory of Money unless you’re so terminally orthodox that you’re unwilling to look at its effects and hence unable to think a new thought…not unlike neo-classical economists.

4) It breaks up the current human civilization-long monopoly monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money (Debt Only) with the new applied concept/paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting…by discovering and applying a concept that is in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm (Debt Only as opposed to Strategic Gifting).

5) And just as a kicker…if we’re smart enough to CONSCIOUSLY do so…it would be the greatest opportunity to self actualize graciousness as in gratitude for a gift since meditation and prayer…and you won’t even have to chant the right words, just go to the store and buy something. So why don’t we all “overturn the tables of the money changers”, put a smile on our faces and increase economic security and freedom like never before? Or we can all just get so frustrated by Trumpian Chaos that we end up mistakenly slugging our neighbor who may or may not be a Trumpist/fascist.

Good Synopsis of The Problem and Policies To Solve it

Yes, power is addictive and as Lord Acton said absolutely corrupting. The only business model that hasn’t innovated in some constructive way (their derivatives debacle in the GFC doesn’t count as constructive) is Finance. And think about it, Finance’s monetary paradigm of Debt Only as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of new money hasn’t changed for the entire course of human civilization no matter whether it was the Palace or the private banks that was in control. We live and labor under Finance capitalism afterall. But rather than get into the ubiquitous (false) duality of capitalism vs socialism, which Finance is happy to see us expend all of our mental energies on, why not try finishing Hegel’s dialectic with a true synthesis, that ups our analytic game from mere reform and theoretics to the level of the operant applied concept/paradighmatic level which is the core of the core economic problem. As Dr. Keen correctly said: “Neo-classical macro ignores money, debt and banks”. I’d only add that its the monopolistic monetary paradigm of Debt Only wielded by the private banks that is what desparately needs changing…because it keeps our deepest economic problems in continual suspension and enables them to rise from the ashes of their own folly like in 2008. We DO need to make competition and innovation not only alive but vibrant. Thats why in my book I suggest creating a new governmental department called The Department of Competition, Innovation, Boycotting and The Public’s Bully Pulpit where weekly press conferences would point the finger at CEO’s and corporations that try to game the new monetary paradigm, whose policies double everyone’s purchasing power, potentially doubles the available demand for every enterprise’s goods and service and ends price and asset inflation by of all things implementing beneficial deflation, and asks the question: Well Mr. John Q. Public, what are you going to do about these guys that are trying to undo the 100% increase in purchasing power the new paradigm just granted you, eh?

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 Steve Keen’s YouTube Video 11/30/2025

All of what you say regarding neo-liberalism is correct. Full stop. However, the even deeper problem is that macro-economics almost entirely abstracts out the individual agent and thus it sets up an ethic that says Man was made for Systems…rather than Systems were made for Man. We need an ethical/humane macro-economics. We can accomplish that by integrating a new monetary paradigm of Strategic Monetary Gifting into the current monopoly paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt ONLY. The word ONLY designates it as a monopoly paradigm the same as Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY was a monopoly paradigm and The Reformation ended that inhumane/unethical reality. We require a monetary reformation or the current dominating monetary paradigm wielded by the private banking system will continue to stand astride the world like a collosus…forever. I’m not suggesting we eliminate debt altogether, that would simply replace a monopoly paradigm with another monopoly paradigm. However, if we implemented a policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale 50% of all new money would be a gift that benefitted both commercial agents AND individual agents and (because your monthly automobile, mortgage or other big ticket item’s monthly payment is the retail point of finance) the retail discount policy would integrate finance into the actual economic/productive system instead of allowing it to be a dominating and very costly exterior parasite on everyone and the actual economic system. Applying the 50% Discount/Rebate at the retail point of finance would actually benefit the banks because if everyone got a 50% discount on price for consumer goods and then an additional 50% reduction when they bought a big ticket item (example: a $500k house is reduced to $250k at its purchase point, and then the central bank paid 50% of your monthly mortgage payment the individual gets that $500k house for a payment equivalent of a $125k loan)…the market for mortgages quadruples or more because virtually EVERYONE IS CREDITABLE!

GW: Complimenting Steve Keen: Super! From Ptolemy to Copernicus in Economic theory. Better late than never!

Me: Not quite. His systemic analysis is all perfectly true, but his remedy is more like Ptolemaic cosmology’s “epicycles”, that is, a (false) fix because it doesn’t penetrate to the core problem which is the monopoly monetary and economic CONCEPT of Debt ONLY.

Posted To Ellen Brown’s Scheer Post 11/17/2025

Me: I’m all for public banks, but the change from private to public banking doesn’t enable the kind of total problem resolving and temporal universe change as a change in the nature of credit ITSELF…from Debt Only to Debt and Strategic Monetary Gifting. A change in CONCEPT is a change in paradigm because…paradigms are themselves concepts…like the change from geo-centrism to helio-centrism for instance. The private banks and even a public bank will still only create money as debt. Again, the only way to break up their monopoly paradigm concept of Debt Only is to integrate the new monetary paradigm concept of Gifting…into the Debt Only current system…like with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale. That way a $500k house is discounted to $250k and the government or central bank rebates the entirety of the discount back to the home builder so they are made whole on their entire price. And then, as your monthly mortgage payment is the retail point of Finance, the government or central bank pays for 50% of your monthly payment so you get a $500k house for an equivalent mortgage payment of a $125k loan. Nice huh? But wait, the benefits don’t stop there. For instance make the 50% Discount/Rebate include all sales taxes and the non-sovereign state, county and local governments get 50% of their revenues paid by the federal government…Not you…and with GIFTED money…NOT debt. Inflation? Getting $100 worth of groceries for $50 and a $500k house for the equivalent of $125k is a funny kind of inflation called beneficial price and asset deflation.

DP: Canada’s central bank went from private to public in 1938. Since then its money creation went from about 50% of the economy, to 23% in the early 1970’s, to less than 5% today. Form, follows function, follows form etc. Without the proper feedback structure, it’s only a matter of time before regulatory capture results in less public consideration. Just like the CDC and FDA, as was recently exposed.

In the U.S. binary economics ties credit creation to the INDIVIDUAL through Section 13 of the Fed Reserve Act, the discount window. 0% interest loan, only for the purchase of shares in existing or new productive proper, onetime bookkeeping fee, collateral by insurance.

You can start with 2 minute video, watch the 10 minute video on the Economic Democracy Act on the home page at gjmer.org

My home province has an institution far superior to the Bank of North Dakota, the other publicly owned ‘state’ bank in North American. It is the Alberta Treasury Branches, designed by REAL social crediters. Alberta autonomy or independence can lead to this shaking off the Supreme Court of Canada ruling against money creation.

Me: Dan, Did you see my post above? The 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale is an innovation of Douglas’ Compensated Retail Price and is a full concept/paradigm change in the economy and money system. Douglas was way ahead of everyone else with Social Credit, but like virtually everyone he lived within his present cultural horizon with classical economics’ orthodoxy of general equillibrium and hence never considered a high percentage CRP. Also, he preceeded Kuhn’s analysis of paradigms/operant concepts.

Speech Regarding Wisdomics-Gracenomics Tailored To Students and Political Officials

Wisdomics-Gracenomics: A New Monetary Paradigm

Annotated Presentation Script

[This script is designed to be adaptable for both student and official audiences. Annotations in italics provide speaking notes and audience-specific adaptations.]


Opening: The Question That Changes Everything

Good [morning/afternoon], everyone. I want to start with a simple question that most of us have never seriously considered:

Where does money come from?

[Pause for effect. Most people assume money is created by government printing, but this is largely incorrect in modern economies.]

If you’re like most people, you probably think the government prints it. But here’s the surprising truth: Nearly 100% of the money in circulation today—the money in your wallet, your bank account, your paycheck—was created when someone, somewhere, took out a loan.

[For students: This is why understanding economics matters for your future. For officials: This affects every policy decision you make.]

Every single dollar represents someone’s debt obligation. Think about that for a moment. Our entire economic system is built on the foundation of debt and scarcity.

But what if there was a better way?


Part I: Understanding Our Current Monetary Paradigm

The Debt-Only Money System

[Display slide showing loan creation process]

Here’s how money actually enters our economy:

  1. Bank makes a loan of $1,000
  2. Bank creates $1,000 in new money (the principal)
  3. Borrower owes back $1,000 + interest
  4. But the bank never created the money to pay the interest

[Pause to let this sink in]

This creates a mathematical impossibility. If all money is created through loans, but borrowers owe back more than was created, where does the extra money come from?

[Answer: It comes almost entirely (upwards of 97% of all new money created per year) from other people taking out more loans, creating an endless cycle of PRIVATE debt growth]

The Consequences We Live With

This debt-only system creates predictable problems:

  • Chronic inflation (more money chasing goods as debt grows)
  • Wealth concentration (interest flows to money creators)
  • Economic instability (boom/bust cycles as debt becomes unsustainable)
  • Psychological stress (economic participation based on anxiety and obligation)

[For officials: Every constituent deals with these consequences daily. For students: This will shape your entire economic future.]


Part II: The Trinity Framework – A New Way of Thinking

Beyond Either/Or Economics

Traditional economic thinking presents us with dualities:

  • Either keep the current system OR completely overthrow it
  • Either have inflation OR have deflation
  • Either debt-based money OR no systematic money creation

But wisdom traditions throughout history have recognized that the most elegant solutions often come from transcending apparent dualities through a third option that integrates the best of both sides.

[This is where the philosophical framework becomes practical policy]

The Third Way: Grace-Based Money Creation

What if we created money through grace/gifting instead of debt?

What if every time money entered the economy, instead of creating an obligation, it created an opportunity for gratitude?

This isn’t wishful thinking—it’s practical policy.


Part III: The Core Policy – How It Actually Works

Retail Price Gifting: The Mechanism

[Display slide showing transaction example]

Here’s the elegantly simple mechanism:

  1. Customer shops for a $100 item
  2. Merchant offers 50% discount → Customer pays $50
  3. Monetary authority rebates merchant the full $50 discount
  4. Result: Customer saves 50%, merchant gets full price, new money created through a gift not debt

The Accounting Reality

[Important for skeptical officials or economics students]

This maintains exactly the same accounting principles as our current system:

  • Debit: Banks/Monetary authority’s books (-$50)
  • Credit: Merchant’s account (+$50)
  • Sum: Zero, just like current money creation

The difference isn’t in the math—it’s in the human experience.

Universal Impact

This single policy would:

  • Double everyone’s purchasing power (50% discount on everything)
  • Transform inflation into beneficial deflation (abundance-driven price decreases/mathematical effect to price at retail sale)
  • Create universal economic participation (everyone experiences the gift because everyone participates in retail sale)
  • Maintain business profitability (merchants made whole through rebates)

[For officials: Imagine explaining to constituents that you helped double their purchasing power. For students: Imagine entering an economy where your dollar goes twice as far.]


Part IV: The Complete Policy Framework

Ecological Investment Component

To address the obvious question: “Won’t this cause unsustainable consumption?”

Answer: Implement a slding scale percentage of all gifted money must be invested in energy and ecological research and development bonds at an attractive rate of 5-6%.

Key insight: People are investing with gifted money, not their earned income, so it still feels like receiving a gift while funding the sustainability transition we desperately need.

Tax Integration

The 50% discount includes all state, county, and local taxes:

  • Citizens pay 50% less in total retail prices and also in sales taxes
  • Local Governments receive full percentage of sales taxes and more in total revenue because of increased consumption due to the increased purchasing power created by the 50% Discount/Rebate policy
  • Political tension around taxation largely eliminated

[For local officials (and federal one as well for advocating for the 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale including sales taxes in every purchase): Imagine never having to raise local taxes again because half of all such tax revenue is automatically funded through the monetary authority. Remember the old but true political saw: People vote their pocketbooks.]

International Trade Enhancement

Instead of punitive tariffs, we offer export gifting:

  • Makes domestic goods more competitive internationally
  • Demonstrates paradigm benefits to other nations
  • Encourages cooperative rather than competitive trade relations

Part V: Historical Context – The Power of Paradigm Shifts

Learning from History

Throughout human history, the most transformative changes have come from paradigm shifts:

  • Agricultural Revolution: From hunting/gathering to farming
  • Scientific Revolution: From superstition to systematic inquiry
  • Democratic Revolution: From authoritarian to participatory governance
  • Industrial Revolution: From manual labor to mechanized production

Each paradigm shift:

  • Solved previously intractable problems
  • Created lasting benefits that persist for generations
  • Eventually spread globally because the advantages became undeniable
  • Became “common sense” within a few generations

Why Paradigms Succeed

Successful paradigms share common characteristics:

  1. They work better than existing systems
  2. They solve multiple problems simultaneously
  3. They create benefits for broad populations
  4. They’re practical to implement
  5. They spread organically due to superior outcomes

Wisdomics-Gracenomics meets all these criteria.


Part VI: Addressing Practical Concerns

“This Sounds Too Good to Be True”

[Anticipate this response, especially from officials]

The skepticism is understandable. But consider:

  • The accounting is identical to current money creation
  • The mathematics are sound (purchasing power doubles, prices to the individual reduced by 50% ad yet retail merchants get full price with rebate)
  • The precedent exists (governments already create money through various mechanisms)
  • The benefits are measurable (purchasing power, beneficial deflation, increased investment levels)

Implementation Strategy

Phase 1: Pilot programs at municipal or regional levels Phase 2: State/provincial implementation with federal cooperation
Phase 3: National implementation with international coordination Phase 4: Global adoption as benefits become undeniable

[For officials: You could be pioneers of the most beneficial economic transformation in human history. For students: You could be the generation that experiences the transition to abundance-based economics.]

Risk Management

Economic risks: Minimal—maintains same accounting principles Political risks: Low—universal benefits create broad support Implementation risks: Manageable through gradual rollout International risks: Positive—demonstrates superior economic model


Part VII: The Vision – What This Creates

Personal Impact

Imagine your daily economic life when:

  • Every purchase offers an opportunity for gratitude
  • Your purchasing power has doubled
  • Economic participation enhances rather than diminishes your dignity
  • You’re automatically investing in humanity’s sustainable future

Social Impact

Imagine a society where:

  • Economic abundance is experienced universally
  • Gratitude becomes embedded in daily commerce
  • International trade is based on mutual benefit
  • Environmental innovation is structurally funded
  • Wealth concentration becomes democratic instead of only for the rich as is currently increasingly the case

Global Impact

Imagine a world where:

  • Nations compete to offer the most gracious economies
  • Economic systems serve human flourishing
  • Abundance thinking replaces scarcity thinking
  • Monetary policy serves ecological sustainability

[This isn’t utopian dreaming—it’s practical policy with transformative implications.]


Conclusion: The Choice Before Us

For Students

You’re entering an economy built on debt and scarcity. But you don’t have to accept this as permanent. You can be part of the generation that chooses abundance and grace instead.

Study these ideas. Understand the mathematics. Explore the philosophy. And when you’re in positions of influence, remember that better alternatives are possible.

For Officials

You have constituents struggling with inflation, debt burdens, inadequate purchasing power, and economic anxiety. You also have the power to champion policies that could fundamentally improve their lives.

This isn’t about partisan politics—it’s about practical solutions that benefit everyone. The question isn’t whether these policies would work, but whether we have the wisdom and courage to implement them.

For Everyone

We stand at a potential paradigm shift moment. The current monetary system is a choice, not a natural law. We can choose something better.

The trinity framework suggests that when we’re faced with apparent dualities—like debt versus reform, inflation versus deflation, competition versus cooperation—the wisest path often lies in transcending the duality entirely.

Wisdomics-Gracenomics offers that transcendent path: a monetary system based on grace that works within existing structures while transforming their human impact.

The Call to Action

Students: Become informed advocates for better economic possibilities Officials: Explore pilot implementations and consult with monetary economists Citizens: Support leaders willing to consider transformative change Everyone: Recognize that we can choose abundance over scarcity, grace over debt, cooperation over competition

The most powerful force for positive change is a new idea whose time has come.

The question is: Will we recognize this idea’s time when it arrives?

Thank you.


Q&A Preparation

[Common questions and suggested responses]

Q: “Won’t this cause massive inflation?” A: Actually, the opposite. When purchasing power doubles but production capacity remains constant, prices naturally deflate to equilibrium. Unlike deflationary spirals caused by money scarcity, this is deflation caused by money abundance—economically and psychologically very different.

Q: “How is this different from just printing money?” A: The accounting is identical to current money creation, but the distribution mechanism is fundamentally different. Instead of money entering through debt (which creates obligation and anxiety), it enters through gift (which creates gratitude and abundance).

Q: “What about international competitiveness?” A: Domestic goods become extremely competitive internationally due to lower internal prices. We can extend this advantage through export gifting rather than punitive tariffs.

Q: “Won’t people just become lazy if everything is cheaper?” A: The ecological investment requirement channels some increased consumption toward sustainability. Also, people still work for their income—they’re just able to purchase more with what they earn.

Q: “How do we pay for this?” A: The same way we pay for current money creation—through the accounting operations of the monetary system itself. No taxpayer funding required.

Posted To Ohanga Pai’s Substack Newsletter 08/02/2025

Me: All of what you say are problems, but the biggest and deepest problem remains the monopolistic paradigm concept for the creation and distribution of all new money which is Debt ONLY. The word ONLY designates it as a monopoly paradigm. Now there isn’t anything wrong with the concept of debt itself only its paradigmatic onlyness. Integrating the new monetary paradigm of Gifting into the economy at strategic points like retail sale with equal debits and credits with a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at that point breaks up that monopoly paradigm, ends inflation by implementing beneficial price and asset deflation, invalidates The Quantity Theory of Money and doubles everyone’s purchasing power. The heads of the orthodox explode.

GOTHS: I’m not certain how gifting does anything, because from the concept I drawn from anthropology is that gifting itself is there a particular way communities with close ties exchange items to reinforce social bonds, as well as distribute all the products that they create.

There are lots of examples of non-monetary communities, explicitly traditional, or the intentional communities that many people have created. In these communities, you see people who have common goods whether it’s food or a tool library or traditional societies where they use a system of corveé with a social contract that you know that contributing to the communities labor needs endows the individual with a claim on goods like clothing and food and housing and what not. This is managed by the community and by leadership that is respected based on you know any number of criteria, but generally not authoritarian.

Me: Well thats the rare and tiny systems of barter which does not describe actual large monetary/fiat monetary systems which are dominated by the monopoly concept of Debt Only. That plus barter isn’t gifting…its simply exchange of commodity/item for commodity/item which is economics minus money. Money is a wondeful tool, it just gets screwed up when that tool becomes a monopoly paradigm that the powerful use to dominate almost everybody.

Posts To Robert Reich’s Substack Newsletter 07/31/2025

Me: If the democrats want to win in the next election they’re going to have to come up with a set of innovative economic policies that everyone can benefit from and that is easy to understand. One such policy would be a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale where every merchant agrees to discount their prices by 50% and then the government or the central bank creates the monies (not debt) and rebates every cent of that discount back to the merchant granting it to the consumer. Voila! An economic and monetary paradigm change where everyone can get $100 worth of groceries for $50, a $60k Ev ends up only being $15k (50% off at retail = $30k and then because the retail point of a loan is your payment that amount is reduced by 50% so your payment is the equivalent of a loan for $15k) Also, a $500k house is ultimately reduced to a payment equivalent of only $125k. Ignore the orthodox on all sides and the cynical naysayers just keep broadcasting the benefits to the masses and its “an idea whose time has come”.

WF: It is more than economics, a lot more. Trump’s base, which appears to be a steady 40%, well maybe 37%, is the culture war. The non MAGA bystanders, who didn’t vote, or voted for Trump are motivated by other issues, including Israel/Palestine, and male grievance.

And by the way, a correction to your statement “the government or the central bank creates the monies (not debt) and rebates every cent of that discount back to the merchant granting it to the consumer” Is incorrect in more ways than one.

The Fractional Reserve System, which the Fed (our Central Bank) controls, enables financial institutions, which includes insurance companies, to create money out of debt.

There is a simple equation, no debt = no money. And if you don’t believe me look into the horses mouth: Modern Money Mechanics by the https://archive.org/details/modern-money-mechanics

And as the debt is paid off, that portion of the principal is wiped off the books, IOW the money so created goes out of existence,

Everytime you swipe your credit card, buy a car, mortgage a home,you are creating money,.

What is not zero’d out and what causes long term inflation is the interest on the debt, because when you incur the debt, the money needed to pay the interest is not created, and the result, globally, is that producers are forced to raise prices and/or reduce quality and quantity.

Me: I’m sorry but you’re not seeing what I’m saying…which is that this policy implements a NEW monetary paradigm for the creation and distribution of all new money. The current paradigm is Debt ONLY, that is its a monopoly paradigm where the creation and distribution of all new money is created ONLY as Debt, and the new monetary paradigm integrated into the Debt ONLY system is Monetary Gifting. New paradigms always destroy orthodoxies, in this case it destroys The Quantity Theory of Money because it increases the money supply and yet it implements beneficial DEFLATION…the heads of the orthodox explode.

Me: The theory of fractional reserve banking is a myth and has been invalidated by the economist Steve Keen who has shown that it requires all new loans to be IN CASH instead of credit and credit as in Debt Only which is actually the case. The new monetary paradigm of Gifting strategically integrated into the economy at retail sale breaks up the debt only monopolistic paradigm and results in the benefits I described in my first post.

WF: I am not seeing anything. I am simply explaining Modern Money Mechanics, Your argument isn’t with me, It is with Fractional Reserve Banking. I gave you a link to the publication from the Fed. I’ve done my part.

To increase the quantity of money, requires an increase in debt, public, corporate and private. Public means Governmen Securities, private includes credit cards.

An increase in debt leads to an increase in the money supply,and thus an increase in the price of goods sold.

That is not “seeing anything” i is not opinion, it is scientific fact.

Financial institutions hate inflation, and love deflation. Inflation means that one can pay off debts with cheap money, deflation means that they can confiscate property, used as collateral, and sell it later and make more profit.

During the German Hyperinflation of 1922, workers would collect their pay for the day, or the hour, and rush out to pay off mortgages.

The German hyperinflation increased the money supply, hourly.

Me: The theory of fractional reserve banking is a myth and has been invalidated by the economist Steve Keen who has shown that it requires all new loans to be IN CASH instead of credit and credit as in Debt Only which is actually the case. The new monetary paradigm of Gifting strategically integrated into the economy at retail sale breaks up the debt only monopolistic paradigm and results in the benefits I described in my first post. Getting $100 worth of groceries for $50, a $60k EV for $15k and a $500k house for $125k is “a funny kind of inflation wouldn’t you say?

WF: Fractional reserve banking is as much a theory as gravity.

That is how the system is set up, and in fact it is how banking has worked since the advent of banking and the ability of a bank to print it’s own notes.

Of course loans are paid off in cash. Your statement ” that it requires all new loans to be IN CASH instead of credit and credit as in Debt Only” makes no sense, but I am sure that there are those that borrow money to pay the interest on the debt, like the U.S.

Why would anyone borrow money (at a higher interest rate) to pay off a loan at a lower interest rate.

I refinanced my home, before I paid off the mortgage, because I got a lower interest rate.

Your first post is gobblydoo gook. Makes absolutely no sense.

Me: Again, you’re not looking at the actions of the policy. Retail merchants would register/create an account with The FED or the government and agree to reduce their prices by 50%. Then when they confirmed the reipts of the sales and discounts to the monetary authority it would rebate the entire amount of daily discounts BACK TO THE MERCHANT so that they would be made whole on their FULL price. Why would the merchant like this? Because it would double the potential demand for every one of their goods and services IOW its in their self interest to participate in the policy. And of course its in the self interest of every consumer to receive a gift of 50% of the price of everything.

This is simple accounting practice where equal debits and credits sum to zero which is the actual way that new money is already created by the banks and the government AS DEBT ONLY. The difference here is this money is created AS A GIFT…and because it is distributed at the point of retail sale which among other things is the point of terminal calculation of inflation…it transforms chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset DEFLATION. Again, the heads of the orthodox explode.

WF: This comment Steve is nonsense, devoid of reality. Where the fuck are you going to get $100 worth of groceries for $50, or a $60K EV for 15k.

Well the EV is probably a used car, or an unsold Tesla Cybertruck or Model S. But you ain’t a goin to buy a $500k house for $125K, unless there is a severe depression and then even not. Banks will hold on to properties they acquire through repossession and sell them later and reap a huge profit, not to mention the profit of interest on the loan.

Me: Sorry, all irrelevant objections to the policy actions and its real world effects.

WF: You still make no sense, but here comes an ad hominem, you come off as obsessively deranged.

Me: It made no sense to advocate for helio-centrism when geo-centrism was the orthodoxy…but eventually the advocates of the latter had to face the truth. An identity change is sometimes discomforting, but it doesn’t kill you.

WF: And that analogy is relevant, how?

Me: Your unwillingness to consider that accounting is the way banks create new money instead of fractional reserve banking. Which means that using that same accounting method could create new money as either debt or as a gift…which of course enables the benefits I have described here.

WF: There is one thing that proliferates on the internet and that is people with big ideas that have all the answers and believe that they are the savior. I’ve seen my share, and more than enough of them, like you, post here on Reich’s page hoping to snare some meat for their own little cult.

No thank you

Me: Fine, but if the simple policy I advocate is ever implemented I’ll bet you won’t refuse the 100% increase in purchasing power it will give you. You might be hanging on to a false orthodoxy, but I’m confident you won’t be that stupid.

And by the way long distance internet psychoanalysis of others is a very VERY inaccurate “science”.

WF: Yeh, just what we need another person with a savior complex and the solution to the world;s problems.

Millions have tried, millions have failed. The reason, the many facets of human mentality and behavior

Me: Cynicism and invalidation are always rife before new paradigms are recognized as the solution to anomalous present ones. Consult history on that. Add to that the fact that we are long into the anomalous monopolistic paradigm for intellectual inquiry, namely Science Only, when the superlative intellectual impulse and discipline has ALWAYS been Wisdom which is the third way toward the resolution of seemingly unresolvable opposites. As I like to say: “Science is wonderful, necessary and delicious…and it exists entirely as a set within the digestive tract of Wisdom.”

Your last statement is an example of the modern intellectual disease of cynicism which is mental stopping before one even starts to do something. As the Japanese military strategist Sun Tsu said: “If you can convince the enemy (in this case those who hear about a new paradigm) that there is no reason to fight…you will win every war without a single battle.

WF: So you are a paradigm buster Steve. Pretty grandiose I would say. You validate my assessment.

Me: Accounting is probably the most temporal universe reality anchoring discipline man has ever created, and creating and distributing monetary gifts with accounting at the universally participated in temporal universe point of retail sale gets rid of the monopoly paradigm for money creation and distribution and implements the benefits I’ve described and you still have not looked at apparently. Please keep trying.
I realized the new paradigm and how to implement it by study, a lot of lucky insights from others and keeping an open mind. You don’t know me. I’m sure you’re an otherwise decent person who is just holding onto an orthodoxy that is no longer true. Try to open your mind to a new APPLIED idea. It won’t kill you.

WF: Word salad Steve, totally incomprehensible. Maybe I should humor you, my good deed for the week

You are just another salesman, hawking wares, by trolling a popular and highly read substack. You are one of many, and I mean many. So many saviors, so little time.

Me: Accounting is the way banks and governments create money. They create it ONLY AS DEBT. The word ONLY designates it as a monopoly. Using accounting to create and distribute monetary gifts breaks up that monopoly and creates the benefits I described. Even you, a non-looker, can follow that simple logical process and see its effects …if they actually look at it.

WF: You got one thing right, money is created our of debt, but it isn’t accounting that does it, accounting only records the transaction. Money is distributed by people (whose debt has created it) as they see fit, and by government to pay it’s bills.So your theory is nonsense. And WTF is a non looker,.

FYI I have a Masters in Finance and Accounting, and I studied the Fed, and Central Banks, including the GosBank (The USSR and the Bank of Israel)

And the alternatives to fractional reserve banking are unworkable and undesireable. Gold/silver, printing press money and now crypto, the biggest scam of all, created by guys in their underwear sitting at a keyboard.

Me: “FYI I have a Masters in Finance and Accounting, and I studied the Fed, and Central Banks, including the GosBank (The USSR and the Bank of Israel)”

Thats probably one of the reasons you’re not looking at what I post. Institutional education is mostly a process of acculturating present orthodoxies not innovative observation. And accountants know where every debit and credit goes, but they don’t do conceptual/paradigmatic analysis and so they miss the realities, good and bad, that paradigms create and enforce.

Your last paragraph is completely accurate except for printing press/fiat money creation and fractional reserve banking.

WF: No Steve, my education is what informs me that you are a misbegotten would be savior, and full of it.

Fiat actually means faith. It refers to printing press money. Federal Reserve Money is limited by debt. The government can’t print it as it please and use it to pay its bills.

It does print government securities and sells them to the Association of Primary Dealer in Government Securities (Google it), when then sells them to the Fed, which uses them as it’s reserve base for creating money out of debt, and also sells them to sovereign funds, institutions, and other central banks, which use them as their reserve base.

All of that in the pdf I linked to which you won’t read, because you think you know it all.

Me: I don’t dispute the present creation process you describe…only that money is created ONLY AS DEBT…which makes it a monopoly paradigm that is at the root of our monetary and economic problems. And all you have to do is amend the FED’s charter to create the monies, NOT DEBT, to fulfill the rebate aspect of the 50% Discount/Rebate policy.

So you’re wrong, I know exacty where you’re coming from. ITS YOU WHO REFUSES TO SEE THAT UTILIZING THE SAME ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS COULD CREATE AND DISTRIBUTE THE MONIES FOR THE REBATE ASPECT OF THE 50% POLICY AT RETAIL SALE WHICH IN TURN WOULD IMPLEMENT THE BENEFITS I’VE DESCRIBED.

THERE’S ACTUALLY HISTORY HERE AS LINCOLN DISTRIBUTED NON-DEBT GREENBACKS WHICH HAD VERY BENEFICIAL EFFECTS LIKE WINNING THE CIVIL WAR, BUT BECAUSE HE DIDN’T HAVE THE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE TODAY AND THE GREENBACKS WEREN’T DISTRIBUTED AT RETAIL SALE WHICH IS THE TERMINAL EXPRESSION POINT OF INFLATION AND HENCE IT DIDN’T MATHEMATICALLY ELIMINATE INFLATION LIKE THE 50% DISCOUNT/REBATE POLICY.

So whats your next irrelevant and orthodox non-rebuttal to what I’m saying???

WF: I don’t discuss with a fool who types in all caps, that means you have no argument, except to scream.

Oh, Lincoln financed the war by selling bonds, and after the war the bond holders, especially in London, wanted repayment in Gold. He refused, he was assassinated, His Vice President, Seymour Johnson also refused to pay the debt in specie.

In the election of 1868, The World, a NY based neswpaper owned and controlled by August Belmont(of the , withdrew support for the conservative candidate, Horatio Seymour, because his party would not endorse redemption of American War Bonds in Gold. A European banking syndicate(Rothschild / Baring) owned a large amount of these bonds and the bonds, by terms of issue(act of Feb 25,1862) were payable in greenbacks ‘this treachery threw the election to Grant.”

The first act of his administration was to pass legislation (The Credit Strengthening Act of Mar 18, 1869) which redeemed the bonds in coin, bonds which were originally sold at half prices because of their irredeemably in coin (gold). If these measures are not adequate then there are always, of course extreme measures available.

Note: Lincoln’s life was threatened from the front page of the London Times by Banking and Trading interests because he would not redeem Greenbacks (true fiat money) for gold.

So you don’t like the system as is.

What is your solution? Crypto?

Oh by the way, bankers hate inflation, it enables the common man to pay off debts with cheap money. during the German hyper inflation of 1922, a worker would get their paycheck and rush to the bank to pay off their mortgage with one days or hours work.

Whats to love with deflation? With deflation they can repossess real property, then hold on to it until the economy recovers and then sell it at great profit, also profiting from the loans.

The big banks made out like bandits during the banking crisis of 2008, they repossessed property, held it for resale later, and received a bail out from the government. on top of that.

Me: Google search: Did Lincoln sell bonds to English banks to create Greenbacks?
No, Lincoln did not directly sell bonds to English banks to create greenbacks (United States Notes).
Here’s a breakdown:
Greenbacks were created through the Legal Tender Act of 1862: This act authorized the US Treasury to issue $150 million in United States Notes (greenbacks), which were not backed by gold or silver but declared legal tender for most debts.
Bonds were sold to various investors: While the government sold bonds to help finance the Civil War, they were sold to a range of investors, including American citizens and some foreign investors, but there’s no specific indication that they were exclusively sold to English banks.
The purpose of bonds was to raise funds for the war, not specifically to back greenbacks: The bonds were a separate tool used to generate revenue alongside the issuance of greenbacks, taxes, and other measures.
Greenbacks could be reissued after bond sales: Notably, the Treasury was allowed to reissue United States Notes that it received from bond sales, further increasing the money supply.
In summary, the issuance of greenbacks was a direct action by the US government through the Legal Tender Act, not a result of bond sales to specific foreign banks.

Your list of crimes and assasinations only highlights why changing the monetary paradigm is so important. Crypto is a scam and not a currency and its not a secure way of dealing with the present anomalous monetary paradigm…like a 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale is.

As for hyperinflations the hyperness of them in the Weimar republic one wasn’t really initiated until after private banking leveraged up and shorted the currency. Zimbabwe’s case was just stupidity on top of continued stupidity and could have been largely if not completely avoided with the policies I suggest.

There is no deflation of ultimate price with the 50% Discount/Rebate because everyone gets their full price with the rebate aspect of the policy. The consumer DOES benefit via the deflationary result of the discount and the policy increases demand and market size for the commercial agents.

You can ignore it, but you can’t get around the fact that using equal debits and credits to lower the price at retail sale creates beneficial deflation for virtually all economic agents. So please try looking at that temporal universe problem resolving action.

WF: Did I say that Lincoln sold Bonds to Britiish Banks? No I did not. Lincoln sold bonds to finance the civil war, and they were bought by British investors namely the investment bankers Rothschild and Baring.

I’ve had it with you. I’ve been a fool engaging.

Me: My last post acknowledges that additional bonds were sold. My point over all though was to point out that simply creating money as money and not debt was what really enabled the North to win the civil war, and that doing so with the Discount/Rebate at retail sale also does have the temporal universe ability to transform erosive inflation into beneficial deflation. But you can go on not looking at that fact as long as you so desire.

Learning something new is frustrating only to those who will not open their minds to new demonstrated facts. Adios, and I might post additional policies here that soldify the beneficial effects of the new monetary paradigm. Looking forward to you not cluttering the thread with off the mark critiques.

WF: You have nothing to contribute. I am more than familiar with your type.

You read a book, became a missionary, and with the assistance of google AI think they have become a savior, of only people will listen to you, and if they don’t jump on your bandwagon, then they are dolts.

As I said my mistake was engaging with you. While your misbegotten screed is the result of reading a book and google.

My sources are a two year research, scouring the reference libraries and attics of two universities and receiving documents from five central banks and a study of the marketing and banking system of the USSR.

You have nothing to add, and I certainly don’t see you as a savior, and as regards myself, I have nothing to sell and I am not a customer for the crap you are trying to sell.

Me: Authorities and their orthodoxies are the first victims of new paradigms. :). I thought you weren’t going to reply to me anymore. Please try to keep your word.
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Posted To Ellen Brown’s Reply To My Post On Her

Caps are meant for emphasis not shouting.

Social Credit was an interesting and VERY POPULAR WORLD WIDE MOVEMENT back between the world wars, but its policy of a compensated retail discount was only meant to be a smallish percentage to counter inflation and so it would have been gamed by commercial agents practicing greedflation and so its economic effects nullified. Thats because Douglas although a very clear minded individual still remained within the economic mental horizon of General Equillibrium and “free” market theoretics plus Social Credit existed before the entire subject of paradigms had been analyzed. Thus it was just a very good palliative, but not a paradigm change which is all the difference in the world.

A large/50% Discount/Rebate policy flips the mental and temporal universe reality (a classic signature of paradigm changes) from chronic erosive systemic inflation to BENEFICIAL INDIVIDUAL deflation, invalidates the orthodoxy of The Quantity Theory of Money, supercharges the individual’s economic and monetary benefits and punishes/eliminates the temptation of greedflation because if a commercial agent raises their prices by say 10-20% how much market share is that anti-social CEO going to lose to the one who doesn’t inflate or even competes by lowering their prices to show the consumer that they actually have good will toward their consumers which is the most valuable commodity a business can possess. In my book I also suggest additional policies that solidify the new paradigm’s effects.

Yes, cynicism is the intellectual disease of modernity, but the key to changing that is to DIRECTLY broadcast the INDIVIDUAL benefits over the systemic ones which is also a signature of SUCCESSFUL historical paradigm changes and enables Victor Hugo’s correct observation that “the one thing all of the armies of the world cannot resist is an idea whose time has come.” Its time to change the 8000 year old monetary paradigm of Debt ONLY.