fair point
but, given he's a nobel prize winning economist, he seems to have missed a fairly important thing, that being that inventing money tends to catastrophically fuck up your economy.

Although, I dunno, maybe it doesn't any more, maybe it's so virtual and fucked up anyway that anything goes.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:08, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

He's only saying do it to call the house republicans bluff rather than actually do it.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:09, Reply)

republicans are fucktards over this kind of thing.
there's nothing mental enough he can call that they will actually back down on.

Because I suspect that a catastrophic meltdown of the US economy suits them to a degree, in that it's their best chance of getting power back in 4 years time.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:10, Reply)

And that is the problem.
Reading about it, A republican has just put a motion "stopping" this from happening and trying to change the law. By saying that, he's implied that it's currently legal to do which makes it more likely to stand up in court.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 8 Jan 2013, 12:17, Reply)