What if central banks had decided to shore up borrowers and not banks…

The radical alternative discussed here last week – QE for the People (or QEP, for short) – would bypass banks completely by distributing newly created money straight to the public. It is not yet on anyone’s agenda, but neither is it any longer dismissed as a joke.

Given the clear political attractions of giving money to citizens, rather than bankers, it may start to gain attention, at which point there will surely be powerful objections to this idea.

source: Suddenly, quantitative easing for the people seems possible | Anatole Kaletsky.

also known as stimulus?