[ExI] a good laugh

[William Flynn Wallace]

from Krugman's column

, one possible way out would be to exploit an apparent legal loophole by
minting a platinum coin
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with
a huge face value, say $1 trillion, depositing that coin in an account at
the Fed, then drawing on that account to pay the government’s bills


bill w
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