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New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Hayes and Carney

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Devin Smith | 7 comments

Did the MSM’s new wave of commentaries on platinum coin seigniorage (PCS) miss the really big story about it? Of course, I think it did, and I’ll continue my review of the MSM commentaries with the efforts of Chris Hayes at MSNBC, substituting as host on the Rachel Maddow show (12/05 at 9:20 PM); and John Carney at CNBC (12/06 at 11:54 AM). This is my second review post on this subject. Continue reading →

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Tagged #PCS, #TDC, $60 T coin, Chris Hayes, debt ceiling, debt-subject-to-the-limit, fiscal cliff, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility, Fiscal Sustainability, John Carney, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, platinum coin seigniorage, Trillion Dollar Coin

New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Pethokoukis and Wiesenthal

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Devin Smith | 6 comments

By Joe Firestone

In this post I said I would blog about the likely expected relationship between the different PCS options and inflation using the framework laid out by Scott Fullwiler! But, after reconsidering, I thought I’d hold off until later, and, instead, first provide a discussion of the “new wave” of MSM-based blog posts on the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) “solution” to the upcoming debt ceiling conflict. As it turns out that will take a number of posts in itself. Continue reading →