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Hello and welcome to another episode of the AdLots podcast, I'm Joe Weisenthal.

Unfortunately, my colleague Tracey Alley is off today,

and I say it's unfortunate because A, it's always unfortunate when she's off,

but B, today we are going to be speaking about her favorite topic,

which is minting a trillion dollar coin.

Being a little facetious about that, I'm not 100% it is her favorite topic,

but that being said, a few weeks ago we interviewed Rowan Gray,

assistant professor at Willamette Law School, and she definitely came away from this topic,

I would say more coin curious, coin-pilled, open to the trillion dollar coin idea than she had been.

For anyone listening today, I would definitely suggest listening to that conversation first,

and it's about this idea that were we to get into a debt ceiling impasse that there is a statute

in a 1996 law that says that in theory, the secretary of the treasury can mint proof platinum

coinage, and people have argued, including Rowan, that this would allow the government to continue

financing even in the event that it isn't allowed to take on more debt.

So again, I would encourage everyone to listen to this, but it's a big topic,

and so in the meantime, the debt ceiling question has been punted to December,

they got 10 Republican votes to essentially go for about two more months,

so the question isn't going away. In the meantime, since then, we've also heard

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