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White House Ratchets Up Pressure On GOP After Dismissing Platinum Coin Idea

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of news that both the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve rejected the minting of a trillion dollar coin as a soluti...

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Administration To Reject Magic Coin Trick To Avert Debt Ceiling

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 01.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury Department will not mint a high-value platinum coin to avert the debt ceiling, according to an official statement from...

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Cold Case File: Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack on Social Security?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

How did we reach such a state of confusion about the solvency of Social Security? Actuaries deal in probabilities and statistics. What were the odds we'd be so confused in 2010?

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State Controller Warns IOUs Could Be Issued In 2 Weeks

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

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State Controller John Chiang said California was only "two to four weeks" away from issuing IOUs for the second consecutive year as the state budget i...

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Cash In: Millions In California IOU's Set To Expire

AP | JESSE McKINLEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Iou's, California, Budget Crisis, California Budget Crisis, California Budget Cuts, I.o.u.'s, California IOUs, California Fiscal Crisis, Los Angeles News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials are at a loss to explain why $50 million worth of IOUs issued during last year's fiscal crisis have no...

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How California Could Turn Its IOUs into Dollars

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Ious, Wells Fargo, Citibank, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, California Budget Crisis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Bank, Bank of North Dakota, Business News

If the state were to deposit its money in its own state-owned bank, it could have enough credit to solve its budget crisis with funds to spare.

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Towards a Solution to the Debt Crisis in California: The State Could Walk Away and Create Its Own Credit Machine

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Read More: Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Ious, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wells Fargo, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, California Budget Crisis, State Bank, Bank of North Dakota, Politics News

California could put its revenues in its own state-owned bank and fan these "reserves" into many times their face value in loans, using the same "fractional reserve" system that private banks use.

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California Dreamin': How the State Can Beat Its Budget Woes

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

The world's eighth largest economy is not going quietly into that pit of debt and devastation that has devoured Third World countries whole.

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California Budget Squabbling: Schwarzenegger 'Broke' The Budget, He 'Should Fix It'

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California's controller will start paying many of the state's bills with IOUs as soon as Thursday after lawmakers failed to clos...

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