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Well, there's the thing. He IS contemplating "helicopter money". That does not equate to "citizen's income", but anyone but a trained economist would know that it's the most efficient way to deliver it.

I was hoping that someone would come up with ideas as to how the ECB could actually deliver money to actual people, presumably over the heads of their government.

It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II

by eurogreen on Wed Mar 16th, 2016 at 02:40:18 AM EST
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It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
by eurogreen on Thu Mar 17th, 2016 at 09:36:16 AM EST
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  • We are going to start a new program called QE2, paying (80 billion euro / divided by number of recipients) per month to all EU inhabitants that we can transfer to. Please instruct your tax authorities to promptly comply with our instructions or your country is left out and everybody else gets more.

  • But ...

  • What part of independent don't you understand?

It is not harder than that. Not that I think they will do it, giving money to poor people goes against all they believe in.
by fjallstrom on Thu Mar 17th, 2016 at 12:20:58 PM EST
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