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The platinum-coin option

Toss a coin

A crackpot idea to circumvent America's debt ceiling gains currency

WASHINGTON, DC

ARCH-CONSERVATIVES have long prescribed a return to the gold standard as the answer to America's fiscal and monetary excesses. Now liberals are looking to precious metals to solve a fiscal bind.

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