Carney: ‘I Have No Coins In My Pocket’

By David Kurtz

January 9, 2013 10:31 a.m.

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Jay Carney in today’s just-concluded White House briefing assiduously tried to avoid opening the door to the minting of a platinum coin to circumvent the looming debt ceiling crisis — but he seemed pretty determined also not to use language that completely ruled it out.

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