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Using platinum coins to make easy money, FDR would approve

Michael Allan McCrae | August 08, 2011 | 6:41 pm Energy Precious Metals Europe Gold 

Matthew Yglesias says that the Obama administration may start looking at some unusual tools to reflate the dollar and kickstart the economy, and using two trillion of platinum coins may not be so far fetched. Yglesias reads between the lines...

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