{"id":4327,"date":"2011-07-28T19:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4327"},"modified":"2011-07-28T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T18:10:08","slug":"heres-a-coin-that-collectors-will-love-and-help-the-debt-ceiling-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/heres-a-coin-that-collectors-will-love-and-help-the-debt-ceiling-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a coin that collectors will love, and help the debt ceiling problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A little-known statute gives the secretary of the Treasury the authority to issue platinum coins in any denomination. So some commentators have suggested that the Treasury create two<strong> $1 trillion coins<\/strong>, deposit them in its account in the Federal Reserve and write checks on the proceeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little-known statute gives the secretary of the Treasury the authority to issue platinum coins in any denomination. So some commentators have suggested that the Treasury create two $1 trillion coins, deposit them in its account in the Federal Reserve and write checks on the proceeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-politics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-17N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}