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Trillion Dollar Coin
No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and
Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry |
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"Jerry Dennis" wrote in message
... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. If so, what would that really accomplish? I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. |
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Trillion Dollar Coin
On Jan 5, 10:11*pm, "bremick" wrote:
"Jerry Dennis" *wrote in message ... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. *Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. *Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? *I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. *If so, what would that really accomplish? *I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. *Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? *Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? * Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. I think the idea (which is just an accounting trick) would be to take a simple one ounce platinum blank and stamp it "one trillion dollars". There is no need to attempt to make the intrinsic value of such a coin anywhere close to its "face". The Traesury Secretary would have the very few of these coins which were required to be made up sent to some vault in New York City or Washington D.C. Congressional approval probably doesn't mean squat. But there is simply no point to minting such a coin; the Federal Reserve Bank effectively does this every day with their computers and gee, they don't do a sum of one trillion dollars more than two or three times per year. In Weimar Germany in 1922-23, they didn't use any more paper to print a million mark note than they did to print the Imperial pre-war one hundred mark note (indeed they used a smaller price of paper). Wrap your head around this thought: "Money" means nothing anymore. Work, careers, business skills, effort means nothing anymore. The money cheaters can create more "money" in a computer keystroke than you or I could "earn" by ten thousand lifetimes of "work". oly |
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On Jan 6, 12:03*am, oly wrote:
On Jan 5, 10:11*pm, "bremick" wrote: "Jerry Dennis" *wrote in message .... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. *Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. *Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? *I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. *If so, what would that really accomplish? *I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. *Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? *Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? * Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. I think the idea (which is just an accounting trick) would be to take a simple one ounce platinum blank and stamp it "one trillion dollars". There is no need to attempt to make the intrinsic value of such a coin anywhere close to its "face". *The Traesury Secretary would have the very few of these coins which were required to be made up sent to some vault in New York City or Washington D.C. Congressional approval probably doesn't mean squat. But there is simply no point to minting such a coin; the Federal Reserve Bank effectively does this every day with their computers and gee, they don't do a sum of one trillion dollars more than two or three times per year. In Weimar Germany in 1922-23, they didn't use any more paper to print a million mark note than they did to print the Imperial pre-war one, hundred mark note (indeed they used a smaller price of paper). Wrap your head around this thought: "Money" means nothing anymore. Work, careers, business skills, effort means nothing anymore. *The money cheaters can create more "money" in a computer keystroke than you or I could "earn" by ten thousand lifetimes of "work". oly- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The link is Russia Today (sometime dubious, but their financial TV stories have been pretty great in recent times due to one lady reporter), but you can also find this story elsewhe http://rt.com/usa/news/trillion-dollar-debt-coin-353/ Again, there's nothing that means a one trillion dollar coins need have more than a nominal amount of platinum!!! oly |
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oly wrote:
On Jan 5, 10:11 pm, "bremick" wrote: "Jerry Dennis" wrote in message ... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. If so, what would that really accomplish? I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. I think the idea (which is just an accounting trick) would be to take a simple one ounce platinum blank and stamp it "one trillion dollars". There is no need to attempt to make the intrinsic value of such a coin anywhere close to its "face". The Traesury Secretary would have the very few of these coins which were required to be made up sent to some vault in New York City or Washington D.C. Congressional approval probably doesn't mean squat. But there is simply no point to minting such a coin; the Federal Reserve Bank effectively does this every day with their computers and gee, they don't do a sum of one trillion dollars more than two or three times per year. In Weimar Germany in 1922-23, they didn't use any more paper to print a million mark note than they did to print the Imperial pre-war one hundred mark note (indeed they used a smaller price of paper). Wrap your head around this thought: "Money" means nothing anymore. Work, careers, business skills, effort means nothing anymore. The money cheaters can create more "money" in a computer keystroke than you or I could "earn" by ten thousand lifetimes of "work". oly I agree! So what are we going to do about the millionaires and billionaires and their tools that are trashing our economy and threatening our freedom? JAM |
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"Frank Galikanokus" wrote in message ...
oly wrote: On Jan 5, 10:11 pm, "bremick" wrote: "Jerry Dennis" wrote in message ... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. If so, what would that really accomplish? I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. I think the idea (which is just an accounting trick) would be to take a simple one ounce platinum blank and stamp it "one trillion dollars". There is no need to attempt to make the intrinsic value of such a coin anywhere close to its "face". The Traesury Secretary would have the very few of these coins which were required to be made up sent to some vault in New York City or Washington D.C. Congressional approval probably doesn't mean squat. But there is simply no point to minting such a coin; the Federal Reserve Bank effectively does this every day with their computers and gee, they don't do a sum of one trillion dollars more than two or three times per year. In Weimar Germany in 1922-23, they didn't use any more paper to print a million mark note than they did to print the Imperial pre-war one hundred mark note (indeed they used a smaller price of paper). Wrap your head around this thought: "Money" means nothing anymore. Work, careers, business skills, effort means nothing anymore. The money cheaters can create more "money" in a computer keystroke than you or I could "earn" by ten thousand lifetimes of "work". oly I agree! So what are we going to do about the millionaires and billionaires and their tools that are trashing our economy and threatening our freedom? JAM -------- I say let's vote them out of Congress!! |
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On Jan 8, 8:17*pm, "bremick" wrote:
"Frank Galikanokus" *wrote in .... oly wrote: On Jan 5, 10:11 pm, "bremick" wrote: "Jerry Dennis" *wrote in message .... No link to this rumor, but it was on TV on The Five last night, and Huffington Post ran a blurb on its web site. *Seems the feds are seriously considering issuing a platinum coin worth a trillion dollars to avoid the debt ceiling. I did a little math on the deal using the current $100 Platinum Eagle as a base. *Using the ratios for 1 oz. PAEs, it would take 10 billion troy oz., or just over 342,857.142 86 tons (US), for a single trillion dollar eagle. Kind of makes the 2007 Canadian $1,000,000 Maple Leaf (100 kg) and the 2012 Austrailian $1,000,000 Kangaroo (1000 kg) seem like chump change.. Jerry ---------- Would it actually be money if it isn't intended for circulation? *I'm thinking of those 1933 Saints here. *If so, what would that really accomplish? *I'm sure there probably were a bunch of legal experts involved if the govt ever seriously considered it. *Could it be legally "worth" a trillion if it simply said so on it with a Congressional blessing? *Or would it require a trillion worth of platinum? * Sadly, this government seems to be reduced to weirdness rather than common sense to reduce our debt. I think the idea (which is just an accounting trick) would be to take a simple one ounce platinum blank and stamp it "one trillion dollars". There is no need to attempt to make the intrinsic value of such a coin anywhere close to its "face". *The Traesury Secretary would have the very few of these coins which were required to be made up sent to some vault in New York City or Washington D.C. Congressional approval probably doesn't mean squat. But there is simply no point to minting such a coin; the Federal Reserve Bank effectively does this every day with their computers and gee, they don't do a sum of one trillion dollars more than two or three times per year. In Weimar Germany in 1922-23, they didn't use any more paper to print a million mark note than they did to print the Imperial pre-war one hundred mark note (indeed they used a smaller price of paper). Wrap your head around this thought: "Money" means nothing anymore. Work, careers, business skills, effort means nothing anymore. *The money cheaters can create more "money" in a computer keystroke than you or I could "earn" by ten thousand lifetimes of "work". oly I agree! So what are we going to do about the millionaires and billionaires and their tools that are trashing our economy and threatening our freedom? JAM -------- I say let's vote them out of Congress!!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I think that the old comic strip "Pogo" (Walt Kelly) quote went something like "We have met the enemy and it is us" and that it applies here. Lots and lots of people get more from "the System" than they ever put in. My poor old paternal grandparents clearly did towards the end of their lives. My parents did too (but they were very successful and they did put in quite a lot first, up-front). I am now angling to game "the System" for myself. Being personally honest about what you tell yourself about yourself is still rather important. Sauve qui peut, baayy-beeee. oly oly |
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