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113: NYT Columnist Paul Krugman on The Debt Ceiling

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The Debt Ceiling and Extortion

We're $31 trillion in debt, is that where we are? Yeah, but first of all, nothing says it has to be $1 trillion. You can just keep minting trillion dollar coins as long as necessary. And it doesn't even mean that the Fed has to print money,. The Fed can sterilize the impact by selling off some of the Fed’s enormous amount of U.S. government debt.

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