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Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play... by immibis on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:44PM (#38183299)
Also uncharted territory. So far, that's never been tried.
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Re:I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Play... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:46PM (#38183331)
> Also uncharted territory. So far, that's never been tried.

Minting is more precedented than the Fed. Functionally doing this is trivial. It's legally asserting the supremacy of the 14th Amendment over the Public Debt Acts.

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