trillion dollar coin
Jan
11
2013
Jan
10
2013
Cagle's cartoon lampoons the trillion-dollar coin proposal as the ultimate fiscal gimmick, depicting the Treasury Department's legally creative but practically absurd idea for sidestepping the debt ceiling during the January 2013 standoff. The image captures the desperation underlying Washington's debt ceiling brinkmanship.
Jan
10
2013
Jan
9
2013
Heller depicts the controversial proposal to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin as a way to sidestep the debt ceiling in January 2013, a creative but constitutionally dubious idea championed by legal scholars during the standoff. The cartoon captures Washington's search for clever workarounds to self-imposed fiscal constraints.
