"It's really a shame that the administration is ruling out one of the very few bargaining chips it …

"There are only two options to deal with the debt limit: Congress can pay its bills or they can fai…

“With the President asking Congress to raise the debt ceiling, Democrats in Washington are falling …

...top Senate Democrats see the 14th amendment option as far preferable politically to the coin. “O…

Now the NRSC wants every Democrat up for re-election to state where he or she stands. The committee…

Rep. Jerry Nadler supports the idea. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote his first pri…

The Constitution in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5 provides the legislative branch the power to coi…

Even more, we're learning more and more about the catastrophe that could happen after an unsuccessf…

The $1 trillion platinum coin seems too wacky; the 14th amendment too risky. But could IOU's be the…

Kleinbard's problem with the platinum-coin option is its legality. Both Republican and Democratic m…

If I had to, I’d still bet against the Obama administration minting a platinum coin to meet payment…

"Minting a $1T coin: Outside of an agreement, there are other options available to the White House …

Incidentally, Carney was much more definitive in his position on whether Obama would consider the o…

Media outlets and individuals include: BBC, Fox News, CNN, PIMCO's Bill Gross, Paul Krugman, Reuter…

Only problem is, nobody is actually advocating sourcing 1 trillion worth of platinum. It's called s…

This may seem like a silly quibble, but it's actually incredibly important, since one of the bigges…

I mean, this is absurd. But it has the support of leading leftist Democrat journalists and economis…

Last night, Stephen Colbert took on the idea of minting a trillion dollar platinum coin as a way to…

Walden took interest in proposing legislation to ban the option because he thought the idea of mint…

Within the last week, numerous media reports (example here) have suggested that the U.S. Mint could…