This article describes how the goofy trillion dollar coin works and how it can get America out of it's debt ceiling crisis. God damn I love America. If they do mint the coin they of course will put an eagle on it or something equally iconic. I of course prefer Dr Evil, who is the perfect symbol for this kind of financial stupidity.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Don't Ever Change, America, Because I Love You Just The Way You Are
America is once more on a collision course with the debt ceiling, threatening the economy’s fragile recovery with an entirely avoidable crisis of Congress’ own making. But there may be a way to avoid the whole mess: President Obama can legally mint a commemorative coin worth $1 trillion to guarantee the nation’s creditworthiness. That creates its own crisis, however — namely, who do you put on the platinum coin? Fortunately, we rounded up some options.
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I vote for Grumpy Cat on the $1 trillion coin!
PERFECT! I must be slipping if I didn't think of it myself.
I vote for Scrooge McDuck on the coin.
See, this is a fun game.
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