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8 January 2013updated 27 Sep 2015 5:34am

Krugman backs minting a $1trn platinum coin

The real funny story's the debt ceiling.

By Alex Hern

Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate and New York Times columnist/blogger, has written that President Obama should be willing to mint a $1trn platinum coin in order to avoid having to compromise over the debt ceiling.

Krugman blogs:

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