Let them eat cash? Mark Blyth elaborates |
In the accompanying video, Mark Blyth, professor of International Political Economy at Brown University, talks about his idea. He says while quantitative easing -- or mass asset purchases -- have cost basically $2.8 trillion dollars so far, if you divide that by the taxpaying population it would come to about $56,000 per household. "Imagine if that had just been given to households," he asks."So why not just give them a fraction of that directly, rather than trying to force all of that money through the banking sector altering asset prices, causing asset bubbles and distortions, and hoping that some of it causes real growth," he adds.What about the consequences, like inflation, as some critics argue would occur? Check out the video to see how he responds.
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