How to do Australian “helicopter money”

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Via BI:

Citibank’s Australian economics and interest rate strategy team believe there’s a third option available to the RBA should the need arise: “helicopter money”, or printing money to be distributed to the public via the government.

“Whilst on the experimental end we think it deserves serious consideration by the RBA,” said Paul Brennan, Josh Williamson, Carl Ang and Steven Mansell, members of Citi’s Australian economic and interest rate strategy team in a research note.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.