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Originally at Project Syndicate. Reposted at CGTN. CGTN (China Global Television Network), formerly known as CCTV-9 and CCTV News, is an international English-language news channel. A part of the China Global Television Network group, it is owned and operated by China Central Television (CCTV), the national media organization of China, under the control of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China. Wikipedia CGTNThe helicopters are coming Willem H. Buiter | former chief...

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HK "goers there."Zero HedgeHong Kong Embraces Helicopter Money - Govt Gives Every Adult Citizen HK$10,000Tyler Durden

Steve Keen was interviewed recently on various issues in the video below.[embedded content]

The last time I saw universal basic income discussed on television, it was laughed away by a Conservative MP as an absurd idea. The government giving away wads of cash responsibility-free to the entire population sounds entirely fantastical in this austerity-bound age, where “we just don’t have the money” is repeated endlessly as a mantra. Money, they say, does not grow on trees. (Only as figures on the screen of a computer). In this world, universal basic income seems like a rather distant...