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    Post by weslin3 Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:04 pm

    Trillion dollar coin: The new nuclear option
    Posted by Aaron Blake on January 9, 2013 at 9:34 am

    The trillion dollar coin is emerging as a surprisingly serious proposal by the political left to avoid the looming fight over the debt ceiling.
    It’s also the political equivalent of the nuclear option — something that may be technically practical, but would lead to all kinds of unpredictable political fallout. So much so that it’s very likely to remain in the realm of liberal fantasy.
    The idea of minting a trillion dollar coin (or two) has started to catch on in liberal Democratic circles as a means of circumventing the looming debt ceiling brinksmanship, with Republicans intent on using the negotiations over raising Congress’s borrowing authority to secure big spending cuts — and President Obama is not having any of it. The Post’s Wonk team sums it up as follows:
    Thanks to an odd loophole in current law, the U.S. Treasury is technically allowed to mint as many coins made of platinum as it wants and can assign them whatever value it pleases.
    Under this scenario, the U.S. Mint would produce (say) a pair of trillion-dollar platinum coins. The president orders the coins to be deposited at the Federal Reserve. The Fed then moves this money into Treasury’s accounts. And just like that, Treasury suddenly has an extra $2 trillion to pay off its obligations for the next two years — without needing to issue new debt. The ceiling is no longer an issue.
    The fantastic attempt at a work-around has worked its way from academic circles into the political mainstream, so much so that Republican Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.) has seen fit this week to introduce legislation to prevent such a maneuver.
    Much of the coverage over the last month or so has focused on whether the idea is legally feasible. But it’s also worth a look at how politically feasible it would be because that, arguably, is the bigger hurdle. (Plus, The Fix is hardly a Constitutional scholar.)
    Put simply: Minting a trillion dollar coin would ratchet up the partisanship and gamesmanship in Washington to a level we haven’t seen (though we know that’s hard to believe). And it also would open up Obama and the White House to charges of manipulating the political system in an underhanded way.

    “I seriously doubt the president would risk jamming the Congress and the American public with the coin,” said Republican former congressman Tom Reynolds (N.Y.).
    In a lot of ways, the idea mirrors the current debate about changing the Senate’s filibuster rules.
    As with the debt ceiling, Republicans in Congress have gone to great lengths to use the filibuster (which requires 60 votes to pass a bill in the Senate) as a means of exercising the power available to them.
    But even as that has occurred, Senate Democrats have been hesitant to eliminate or roll back filibuster rules. The current effort seems to be gaining some steam, but even now, it will require some (ahem) creative legislating to pass the reform and wouldn’t actually alter the 60-vote threshold — instead requiring filibustering senators to actually speak during the filibuster, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-style.
    As the filibuster fight shows, while the two sides may seem to be willing to do just about anything to gain partisan advantage, the idea of manipulating the process is still considered beyond the pale by many in Congress.
    Just as with reforming the filibuster, the trillion-dollar coin idea presents all kinds of potential unintended consequences, including opening the door to other practices that have thus far been off the table. And while that would benefit the Democrats in this particular instance, there will be a day when the roles are reversed (the filibuster being case-in-point).
    “It isn’t just a nuclear option, it is opening up the Book of Revelation,” GOP consultant Dan Hazelwood said of the trillion dollar coin. “Laws, Constitution and common sense merely cease to exist.”
    And regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea, the trillion dollar coin would undoubtedly further poison the political well of a federal government whose well is already downright toxic.
    Which is why the “nuclear” metaphor is particularly adept in this case.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/09/trillion-dollar-coin-the-new-nuclear-option/
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    Post by weslin3 Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:05 pm

    Art Cashin was talking about this the other day on CNBC and I couldn't believe it.... What is next? :D
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    Post by Diamond Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:53 pm

    Now this what i call real pocket change!king
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    Post by Neno Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:18 pm

    No wonder Timothy Gietner resigned...
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    Post by wciappetta Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:17 pm

    Ok lets then mint a coin that pays off the entire national debt instead and then cancel FED and income tax....


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    Post by elandur Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:37 am

    This has to be one of the most rediculous things I have ever heard of. You know, Germany had bank notes like this in the 1920's - and it did nothing to "pay off their debt", allow increased spending, etc. All it did was make it so people had to load their money into wheelbarrows to stand in line to buy bread. And those were 20 million mark bills in bundles they were toting!

    Making the coin out of platinum instead of a bill out of paper does not "fix" that problem. Platinum is valuable, yes, however it is currently less valuable than gold. I don't think anyone believes that if we minted a gold coin and said it was worth $1 trillion that anyone would believe it. They aren't going to believe it about a platinum coin either. (BTW, we already mint a 1 oz platinum Eagle bullion coin, and it has a face value of $100 (and is actually worth around $1600 on the spot market). So am I to believe that we are going to now mint a 10 billion ounce platinum coin to cover this? (or 100 million ounce if we go with something closer to the spot price?) (Call me crazy, but I don't think we have 3,125 tons of platinum on hand, or that minting a coin that size is even practical...)

    Or will we just mint a one ounce coin, say it is worth $1 trillion, and be done with it? And after we do that, what will a dollar be worth anyway?
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    Post by weslin3 Thu Jan 10, 2013 2:42 pm

    Wonder if they could make up enough to hand out to all of us in the US? That would settle the economy? lol

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    Post by Screwball Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:35 pm

    I suppose they only need 16 or 17 to cover your debt what a dumb ass idea! almost as good as QE!!!!! lets print money and bail out all our banking friends and motorcompany mates!

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