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US Treasury says there will be no trillion-dollar coin

Michael Allan McCrae | January 13, 2013 | 1:08 am Base Metals Precious Metals Gold Palladium Platinum 

The trillion-dollar coin idea to get around the debt impasse has been nixed, according to a US Treasury official. Anthoney Coley told Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein that the platinum coin wouldn't be legal. “Neither the Treasury Department nor the Federal...

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