{"id":22289,"date":"2021-09-29T05:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2021-09-29T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T05:15:13","slug":"trillion-dollar-coin-washington-eyes-solution-to-looming-debt-crisisunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22289","title":{"rendered":"Trillion-dollar coin? Washington eyes solution to looming debt crisisUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostTalk of a trillion-dollar US coin has returned to Washington now that Congress is mired in another political impasse over raising the debt ceiling.The idea for the pricey platinum \u2013 which would be unprecedented but not necessarily illegal \u2013 was originally floated in 2011 as a runaround in the recurring war between Democrats and Republicans over lifting the debt limit to enable the government to pay its bills.Champions of the idea point to a 1997 law, which in theory would allow the Treasury\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3150537\/trillion-dollar-coin-washington-eyes-solution?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostTalk of a trillion-dollar US coin has returned to Washington now that Congress is mired in another political impasse over raising&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}