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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Obama administration on Saturday killed the idea of minting platinum1 coins in the denomination2 of 1 trillion U.S. dollars to generate revenue and avoid the looming3 battle with Republicans on raising the federal government's debt ceiling.
"Neither the Treasury4 Department nor the Federal Reserve believes that the law can or should be used to facilitate the production of platinum coins for the purpose of avoiding an increase in the debt limit," Treasury Department spokesman Anthony Coley said in a short statement.
Some Democrats5 and economists7, including Nobel Prize-winning economist6 Paul Krugman, contended that the Treasury could mint a platinum coin with a face value of 1 trillion dollars and deposit it at the Federal Reserve, which would credit the sum to the government's account and continue the government's normal operations.
The U.S. federal government reached its debt limit of 16.4 trillion dollars on December 31, 2012 and the Treasury was taking extraordinary measures to temporarily postpone8 the date that the United States would otherwise default on its legal obligations.
Democrats and Republicans struck a deal on Jan. 1 to avoid the so-called "fiscal9 cliff," a combination of tax hikes and automatic government spending cuts. Raising the federal government's debt ceiling would be the next flash point between Democrats and Republicans, as Republicans were urging for steep government cuts in line with a debt ceiling increase.
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1 platinum | |
n.白金 | |
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2 denomination | |
n.命名,取名,(度量衡、货币等的)单位 | |
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3 looming | |
n.上现蜃景(光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼)v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近 | |
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4 treasury | |
n.宝库;国库,金库;文库 | |
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5 democrats | |
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 ) | |
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6 economist | |
n.经济学家,经济专家,节俭的人 | |
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n.经济学家,经济专家( economist的名词复数 ) | |
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8 postpone | |
v.延期,推迟 | |
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9 fiscal | |
adj.财政的,会计的,国库的,国库岁入的 | |
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