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New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave: Here’s The Big Story

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Devin Smith | 37 comments

The one thing that jumps out at you when reading the mainstream posts of the past week-and-a-half bringing Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) into the forefront of attention again, for the first time since last year’s debt ceiling crisis, is that every mainstream blogger or commentator is telling a story about minting a Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC), or a few trillion dollar coins as an option the President can either use or not to get around the debt ceiling. But no one is telling us the much bigger story of the enormously increased authority to cause the creation of fiat money, delegated to the Executive Branch by the Congress in the 1996 legislation enabling PCS. And no one is telling us what the possible implications of this change are for our political and economic systems. Continue reading →

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

New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Bradford and Plumer

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Devin Smith | 4 comments

By Joe Firestone

In my last three posts, I’ve critiqued the new wave of mainstream posts and commentary on Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) on my way to making the case that the MSM are missing “the big story” about PCS. These include posts by Pethokoukis, Wiesenthal, Carney, Drum, Yglesias, Yglesias, and an MSNBC cable segment by Chris Hayes. All of these have looked at PCS in terms of the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) and its possible impact on the impending debt ceiling shakedown. None have viewed it from a broader point of view. Let’s now look at commentaries by Harry Bradford, and Brad Plumer. Continue reading →

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

New MSM Trillion Dollar Coin Wave Misses the Big Story: Drum and Yglesias

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Devin Smith | 29 comments

By Joe Firestone

In my last two posts I’ve been reviewing the new wave of mainstream posts and commentary on Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) by way of providing background for making the case that the MSM are missing “the big story” about PCS. Thus far I’ve reviewed recent posts by Pethokoukis, Wiesenthal, and Carney, and an MSNBC cable segment by Chris Hayes. All four have looked at PCS in terms of the Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) and its possible impact on the impending debt ceiling shakedown. None have viewed it from a broader point of view. Let’s now look at the commentaries by Kevin Drum and two from Matthew Yglesias here and here. Continue reading →

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Tagged #PCS, #TDC, $60 T coin, debt ceiling, debt-subject-to-the-limit, fiscal cliff, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility, Fiscal Sustainability, Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, platinum coin seigniorage, Trillion Dollar Coin

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

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

By Joe Firestone

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 →

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Tagged #PCS, #TDC, $60 T coin, debt ceiling, debt-subject-to-the-limit, fiscal cliff, Fiscal Policy, Fiscal Responsibility, Fiscal Sustainability, James Pethokoukis, Joe Wiesenthal, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, platinum coin seigniorage, Trillion Dollar Coin

The Trillion Dollar Coin Is A Conservative Meme

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Devin Smith | 15 comments

By Joe Firestone

The Trillion Dollar Coin (TDC) is, first, an oversimplified meme, because there’s not one TDC solution, but lots of Platinum Coin Seigniorage (PCS) variations on that idea with differing implications for politics. Some just kick the can down the road, until the next debt ceiling crisis, or set up another trade between the Administration of something relatively valuable for something less valuable. Others would really change the political game. Continue reading →