
113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling
The Al Franken Podcast
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The Twelfth Dollar Coin
The Treasury Department may issue platinum commemorative coins in any denomination it chooses. So the compromise here could be the trillion dollar coin, but the very, very hard right wing anti-Semitic Republicans say it has to be the Lindbergh coin. Or maybe something, you know, we could mint a coin with Vladimir Putin's face on it,. But it says $1 trillion, and then you very carefully carry the coin over to the Federal Reserve and deposit it at the U.S. government.
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