http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/12/trillion_dollar.html Basically a very speculative idea which is getting some attention to mint a trillion dollar platinum coin to avoid the debt ceiling issue at the end of February.
You're still printing money. That money when it circulates, as the government pays it to it's employees and creditors gradually dilutes the money of everyone out there as they spend it. It's still theft by counterfeiting. Plus, who is going to buy a platinum coin with an intrinsic value of a few thousand dollars off the Fed for a trillion dollars? It will have a huge hole in it's balance sheet. An unsellable asset. There are no free lunches.
From what I gathered it's not the size of the coin that matters, it's the loophole in US law that will allow the treasury time if the debt ceiling date passes to stop a default.
Previously discussed here: http://forums.silverstackers.com/to...ins-the-answer-to-america-s-debt-problem.html
