Life Behind the IRon Drape: Helicopter Money

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Accentuating the Liberal in Classical Liberal: Advocating Ascendency of the Individual & a Politick & Literature to Fight the Rise & Rise of the Tax Surveillance State. 'Illigitum non carborundum'.

Liberty and freedom are two proud words that have been executed from the political lexicon: they were frog marched and stood before a wall of blank minds, then forcibly blindfolded, and shot, with the whimpering staccato of ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ resounding over and over. And not only did this atrocity go unreported by journalists in the mainstream media, they were in the firing squad.

The premise of this blog is simple: the Soviets thought they had equality, and welfare from cradle to grave, until the illusory free lunch of redistribution took its inevitable course, and cost them everything they had. First to go was their privacy, after that their freedom, then on being ground down to an equality of poverty only, for many of them their lives as they tried to escape a life behind the Iron Curtain. In the state-enforced common good, was found only slavery to the prison of each other's mind; instead of the caring state, they had imposed the surveillance state to keep them in line. So why are we accumulating a national debt to build the slave state again in the West? Where is the contrarian, uncomfortable literature to put the state experiment finally to rest?

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Helicopter Money: 'When You Stand Up Into The Rotors & Can’t Use Your Head Anymore To Think This Stuff Through.' The US Cliff.

I’ve been slumming it with the lads on interest.co.nz yesterday, where Bernard Hood and his merry men have been waxing lyrical about helicopter money; the supposed need, that is, for governments to monetise their debt by the magic smoke and mirrors of central banks printing money.

To that thread I simply commented as follows:

Why don't we fill the ATM's with an infinite supply of money and all citizens can go and pull out as much as they want? Need a house, just pull out the money and go buy it. No need to work.

... Because this doesn't solve the issues and problems the market mechanism is so essential for, does it. Production, including what to produce, and scarcity. Why would anyone bother building the house, if they can supply all their needs via the ATM, and then even if the house were to appear - perhaps someone built it for a hobby - say it's the only house, then what use pulling out $1.1 million from the ATM if the guy behind me can do the same, plus $1. Or a trillion dollars for that matter, as money is just confetti. The whole pricing mechanism is now broken, there is no allocation system to determine the use (and who uses) resources ... it's got to end badly, surely, as I suspect the one who gets the house will ultimately be the one who can weld the most force to secure, then defend it. Money, that has value, is at the centre of civilised, peaceful society.

Well how do consequences change between a private sector doing this, and the public sector?

To date, to wit, not one of the merry men has answered; simply resnotting to my comment with various infantile impugnings of my character as a libertarian and all the usual ad hominem.

Regarding my post, mulling over the notion of it all ending badly, the only way the US, for example, can service its growing debt is to print money; I can’t even remember which quantitative easing they’re on (four, I think, or it could be six?). I suspect the price for helicopter money is when debt gets to a certain height, the economy will be lost in the rotors, and that will not be pretty: it could, indeed, be bloody. The graph of US debt below indicates surely a day of reckoning shortly, because that cliff they’ve been creating for too long now, it's getting high, steeply.