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Latest debt ceiling fix-it: IOUs

New York (CNNMoney) - The list of sorry ways to address the unthinkable is growing. Call the latest debt ceiling work-around the IOU Plan.

Edward Kleinbard, a tax and legal scholar, has offered up a contingency plan he thinks President Obama could adopt without causing a constitutional crisis if Congress pushes the country to the brink of default: Issue IOUs that can be sold and traded in private markets.