Over the past several weeks the idea of paying off the national debt with a single coin of a nominal $1 Trillion value has received wide circulation. That concept was first given broad exposure by Ellen Brown in her book Web of Debt, and she floated it again with the approach of the f

Great news! The Obama administration has created a website “We the People” to allow people to petition the government for anything they might want. So one clever and thoughtful person has crafted a petition to: Direct the United States Mint to make a single platinum trillion dollar co

New York Times Op-Ed By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF 27 December 2012  “I was on my way to New York to make the speech,” Turner recalled to me. “I just thought, what am I going to say?” So, in front of a stunned dinner audience, he announced a $1 billion gift to United Nations causes such as f

On this first day of the year, or the few days preceding it, it is customary to look back over the past year and note the highlights, and we see that there were many, both good and bad. Last year was spectacular in many ways with many new highs as well as many new lows. We celebrate t