<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">from Krugman's column</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="border-collapse:collapse"><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif">, one possible way out would be to exploit an apparent legal loophole by minting a <a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/b4dtI5rwAikyBwQmgGZipg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRjQwZkP0TwaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8xMC8wMS9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLWNvaW4tZGVtb2NyYXQtcmVwdWJsaWNhbi1kZWJ0LWxpbWl0Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9MTE2JmVtYz1lZGl0X3BrXzIwMjExMDA4Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTQyNDAxJm5sPXBhdWwta3J1Z21hbiZyZWdpX2lkPTY0MTU5Nzc2JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NzEwNjAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPTVlNzExMzliNzlhYjE0MzNkMDc3MTBkOGY4ODM1NmM4VwNueXRCCmFfZIFgYT_hCG1SE2Zvb3psZXI4M0BnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~" class="gmail-m_4813100844065482837css-5nb5nb" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(40,110,208);font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit">platinum coin</a> 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</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:25px;font-family:georgia,serif">bill w</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>