I thought my co-worker was joking when he mentioned that the US is floating the idea of minting a trillion dollar coin and how that’s legally possible due to there being no limit on the amount one can mint in a particular medium, I think in this case platinum coinage
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tri...ling-solution/
This would be to raise the debt ceiling with a ver low risk of inflation or something
Before he could even finish explaining it I asked “and what if someone steals it?” and he said basically the USA would be super fucked
Then we bounced around ideas as to what you could spend it on that would incur the least amount of loss, since literally no entity would be able to give you change
We found out you could buy 48 United States air craft carriers. You could have your own fleet. You could also buy the space station. You’d still incur some losses because neither of those add up to 999 billion, but they seem to be the least amount of losses
Then we speculated HTF would you transport that thing to the treasury or whatever? In one of those Dunbar armored cars, or helicopter? I said the more commotion the more attention it would bring, the better plan would be to have a fat mall cop walk it over with it in his pocket. No thief would ever suspect that’s where the trillion dollar coin is