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The President's Leverage: He Can Go Platinum!

Well, that's over. The President had a chance to go “over the cliff,” bargain hard with the Republicans, get more of what he said he wanted at the price of perhaps some more days of crisis with extreme pressure building on the Republican caucus, and he blinked. more »

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The $60 Trillion Petition for Taking Austerity Off The Table

I have a petition to President Obama up at: http://signon.org/sign/end-austerity-mint-the It's about minting that $60 T coin and ending austerity. The wording of the petition is:

”A 1996 law gives the Executive Authority to mint coins w/arbitrarily large face values and deposit them at the Fed. more »

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Beyond Debt/Deficit Politics: The $60 Trillion Plan

Well, here we are again, House leaders have agreed on a compromise continuing spending resolution at the same level as before from October 2012 through January 2013. more »

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