It was 2011, Obama was President, and Republicans were playing the debt ceiling game, and somebody came up with this brilliant idea: The U.S. Mint would simply strike a platinum coin with a face value of One Trillion dollars, deposit it in the Treasury – and just like that, we’re back below the debt limit.
It didn’t happen, of course, because it’s a big joke, right?
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Well, I thought so too – until I looked it up in the U.S. Code, Section 31, subsection 5112, paragraph (k), and I quote: “The Secretary may mint and issue platinum …
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