THe TRiLLioN DoLLaR TuNa IDea...

BANZAI7 NEWS---Irashaimasen! This is really thrilling for PhD morons, fiscal deadbeats, connoisseurs of fine sashimi and tuna noodle casseroles . An arcane idea that started on sushi chef blogs in the summer of 2011-- that Tim Geithner should catch a trillion dollar tuna to avert the debt ceiling -- is now seriously taking off following this week's haul of a record breaking million dollar tuna. The premise of the idea is this: Although the Treasury, with the assistance of the Federal Reserve Bank, already just creates money out of thin air to pay its bills, there is a technicality in the law that says the Treasury has special discretion to can tunas of any denomination, and the thinking is that Tim Geithner could catch a record breaking giant tuna like the million dollar tuna caught just this past week, attach a price tag of one trillion dollars and walk it over to the Federal Reserve an...