Your Guide to the Trillion-Dollar Platinum Coin That Obama Can Mint to Save the World

Today, New York Times columnist and Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman wrote that President Obama should be “absolutely” prepared to mint a one trillion dollar platinum coin and use it to pay the government’s bills. It wasn’t a typo: a lot of people are discussing the trillion-dollar coin as a way to avoid a fight over the debt ceiling. But what is it? And why? And whose face will be on it? Here’s our guide. More »