Former Bush Economist: Trillion Dollar Coin Is 'Better Than The Alternatives' en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 23:36:50 -0500 James Pethokoukis Puddin Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:47:22 -0500 Marron is a weak minded fool. Trillion dollar coins are the stuff of Zimbabwe. What it suggests is that US has no more fig leaves to cover its utter lack of discipline which made the USD what it was, once upon several decades ago. The perception of discipline is all that separates us from Zimbabwe. If we mint a coin, why not eliminate income taxes? Our debt has no value, so neither does our taxes. Lets just trade pretty slips of paper. His logic is all part of the new banker-government paradigm of ZIRP being ok, bankers being bailed out, and savers getting screwed. In better days all of the people involved in this heads would be on a pike.