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Board Economics
Re: If the USA can't raise the debt ceiling in time what will happen to the price?
by
Viking
on 06/08/2011, 10:33:50 UTC
Only because the debt would have, legally, been paid.

Of course, those receiving the trillion-dollar platinum coins would probably be a little upset.

Or they might just deposit them, flooding the USD market, and life would go on, albeit with a new surge of inflation.

Only two coins would be minted, and they'd largely be symbolic - i.e. you can't steal them. It's only inflationary if the currency they pay for enters common repeated circulation, which simply isn't happening at this point.

As much as I think the Fed system is a screwup, this is false. The money are already in the economy, they entered when they was borrowed.