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Slate Money: The Debt Ceiling is Dumb

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The 14th Amendment and the Platinum Coin

No sensible country has a debt ceiling. The 14th Amendment allows the government to mint platinum coins in any denomination they like. For reasons I don't entirely understand, there was more buzz around platinum coins last time. But for that reason and various other reasons, the coin buzz has died down a bit.

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