Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish]

February 06, 2023 01:10:35
Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish]
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Read_697 - The Trillion Dollar Coin, Genius or a Joke? [James Lavish]

Feb 06 2023 | 01:10:35

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Show Notes

"To wit, we have raised the debt limit 22 times from 1997 to 2022. Yep, we’ve raised the limit 22 times in 25 years. Let that sink in for a moment. OK, so now that we’re all on the same you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me-with-the-endless-and-reckless-spending-of-the-US-Government page, let’s dig into the mechanics a bit." – James Lavish We've hit the awful, shocking, totally unexpected debt ceiling again! OH MY! What ever will we do this time? Wait... I've got a brilliant plan. The Treasury can mint a Trillion Dollar Coin! And our problems will go away. Is this utter genius... or is this an embarrassing joke? I'll let James Lavish take it from here in a very entertaining read from his substack, The Informationist. Check out the original and the excellent substack over at James Lavish's "The Informationist": https://jameslavish.substack.com/p/the-trillion-dollar-coin-genius-or Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, and a company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off everything in your cart! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin. (https://swanbitcoin.com/guy) -------------------------------------- "As it turns out we don't all have to pay our debts. Only some of us do." – David Graeber, Debt the First 5000 Years Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/message

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