$1 trillion platinum coin could get minted, placed at Federal Reserve

The US government is about to hit its debt ceiling, with renewed concerns over the economy looming as the Benjamins tick over, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell not budging on refusing GOP assistance on increasing the debt ceiling.

McConnell said that Democrats need to raise it in order to finance their huge social spending plans on healthcare, education, and childcare. Business Insider reports that there is a loophole in solving this issue, where instead of raising the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department has the power to mint a $1 trillion platinum coin.

The $1 trillion platinum coin would be minted and then deposited at the Federal Reserve, and then the US government would continue away paying its bills like nothing happened -- without the debt ceiling being raised. But then the not-so-federal Federal Reserve has that $1 trillion platinum coin in their possession.

We haven't been at this point before, as there's been plenty of times that the debt limit has been reached, and the US government has even previously shutdown. If it were to happen again, or be worse... in the middle of the state of affairs in the US and globally right now, it wouldn't be pretty.

But that $1 trillion platinum minted coin sure would be!