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Petition To Mint Trillion Dollar Coin Gets Legs, As A Joke At Least

Description:Could the answer to the U.S. economy's woes be solved with the creation of one platinum coin to the tune of one trillion dollars (USD)? That's what pundits have offered as a comical solution to the country's looming debt-crisis. An online petition on Whitehouse.gov calling for signatures to "Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar coin" has gathered over 7,000 signatures. The idea even caught the attention of late-night comic Stephen Colbert who turned it into a (1:35)

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