They have a month to get to get to a target of 25,000. This is an example of how many signatures can be obtained in a month: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...d-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN
Forget that one, what about this one - WTF - "Deport British Citizen Piers Morgan for Attacking 2nd Amendment" It goes to show what a joke this is, what was once probably a good idea just seems to be how ridiculous we can make them ! 105,000 already ? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...piers-morgan-attacking-2nd-amendment/prfh5zHD
Yup, oh well lets print another, and another, and another. Oh what the hell, lets mint a $100 Trillion 1/10 Platinum coin. "That should work for my term in office" says Obama
Well Paul Krugman is in favour of it now, so it must be a good idea huh ? Seriously, those guys that gave him a Nobel prize should be prosecuted
I dont think most americans know how much debt the government is in they are approaching 20 trillion this $1 trillion coin is only going to cover interest repayments
Its a great idea in theory but the federal reserve private investors will not allow one of their customers to pay off their massive debt with one oz of platinum.
The way it technically works is that the money printing power of the Fed Reserve means that it can literally pay any price it wants for any "asset". So the Treasury will "sell" the $1 trillion coin to the Fed who will then credit their account with US$. In theory they could sell the Fed a novelty coffee cup signed by the president (or a stapler). The $1 trillion coin is essentially irrelevant if you think about it except that it looks more like a "real" asset. I'm having a niggling question in the back of my head however, that (once the US Govt manages to get back into surplus) could such a coin effectively delete the Govt debt from the Fed's books and therefore delete much of the additional currency that the Fed has printed? Edit: After more thought, I think the money will still have entered the economy (because the Govt has already spent it) but the liability will be erased (hence saving the US taxpayer from the interest, and principal, repayments).
make 20 * 1 trillion dollar coins deposit 17 into the fed and pay off all debt also use the last 3 1 trillion dollar coins to invest and make money on save on interest payments and use the saving + the interest you are making on your 3 trillion to buy back the coins over time and melt them
The Nobel Committee is helplessly compromised now, giving Krugman and Joe Stiglitz and every other 2-bit lefty economist a Prize. I swear to God, if Milton Friedman had lived in this era, he would never have won a Nobel, even though he's the greatest American economist to have lived, just because the Nobel Committee slants so far to the left these days.
I wonder do they come in capsules or a tube? Im sure putting another us$20t into circulation would cause some sort of inflation problems
