While a commoner might get 10 to 20 years for robbing a bank, bank executives get huge bonuses for robbing us. While a commoner might get 10 to 20 years for robbing a bank, bank executives get huge bonuses for robbing us. An attorney named Carlos Mucha, who at the time was blogging under the pseudonym “ Beowulf ,” proposed issuing a platinum trillion dollar coin to capitalize on this loophole, after he heard me mention the trillion dollar coin in a Thom Hartmann interview. Warren Mosler, one of the founders of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), reviewed the idea of the trillion dollar coin and concluded it would work operationally. And Joe Firestone pointed out that the trillion dollar coin has far greater game-changing potential than mere political maneuvering.