Month: January 2013

The Insanity Continues

Oh, good, we’re hitting the debt ceiling earlier than expected. Fire up the platinum mint!! I see that a former director of the U.S. Mint has come out in favor of the platinum coin gambit. He certainly has credibility on...

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It’s Not That Complicated

For the record, and Duncan’s benefit, I don’t think the platinum coin gambit would cause inflation in our current situation, I know that the president wouldn’t use it to buy bling, and I have said nothing about...

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Still With the Platinum Coin?

I kind of, sort of, understand Democrats who are pushing the platinum coin gambit as a kind of tit-for-tat madman rejoinder to the Republicans’ threat to default on our debt. If the idea is that we’ll act just as...

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Militias Run Amok

The price of a well-regulated militia is pretty high: In December, we tracked 92 shooting incidents in Philadelphia, including nine double shootings and two triple shootings, for a total of 105 gunshot victims, based on original...

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