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To what end?

I know past performance is not an indicator for future, however history does sometimes rhyme.

Here's what happened to consumer confidence and SP500 during Aug 2011 debt ceiling fiasco.

once we see it as a debt crisis, Steve Keen's solution becomes more clear.

Here's Keen himself:

A Modern Jubilee would create fiat money in the same way as with Quantitative Easing, but would direct that money to the bank accounts of the public with the requirement that the first use of this money would be to reduce debt. Debtors whose debt exceeded their injection would have their debt reduced but not eliminated, while at the other extreme, recipients with no debt would receive a cash injection into their deposit accounts.

Clearly there are numerous complex issues to be considered in such a policy: the scale of money creation needed to have a significant positive impact (without excessive negative effects—there will obviously be such effects, but their importance should be judged against the alternative of continued deleveraging); the mechanics of the money creation process itself (which could replicate those of Quantitative Easing, but may also require changes to the legal prohibition of Reserve Banks from buying government bonds directly from the Treasury); the basis on which the funds would be distributed to the public; managing bank liquidity problems (since though banks would not be made insolvent by such a policy, they would suffer significant drops in their income streams); and ensuring that the program did not simply start another asset bubble.

Good insights so far everyone! Thanks.

This Steve Keen's solution is interesting. We could do worse and are.

Anyway with the Dow Jones...

Up up up it goes. It seems like a "low brainer" now.

The S&P 500 is getting close to a high.