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Wonking Out: Biden Should Ignore the Debt Limit and Mint a $1 Trillion Coin

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From commons.wikimedia.org: The $1 Trillion dollar coin idea may have been made obsolete by inflation. Maybe a $1 quadrillion coin now is better?
The $1 Trillion dollar coin idea may have been made obsolete by inflation. Maybe a $1 quadrillion coin now is better?
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"Now is the time for some courageous gimmickry.

The fact that Republicans routinely say such nonsense is why the Biden administration should mint a $1 trillion platinum coin or declare that the Constitution gives it the right to issue whatever debt is needed to fund the government — or use some other trick I haven’t thought of to ignore the looming crisis."

Good options here.  I would add the Dems could make the silly self-imposed debt limit - not even a law, just a Congressional rule - irrelevant by raising the limit to $1 quadrillion.

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