I decided it was time to delete some of the pictures stored on my iPhone. As I was going through my collection I found these two taken at my local gas station. I have a habit of snapping pictures when I’m at gas stations, I like to keep track of the prices. Imagine my surprise when I noticed these pictures were taken roughly 30 days apart.

It makes you wonder what the next 30 days will have in store for the consumer. How much longer until we can’t afford to leave the house? The supply shock coming from the Middle East is hard on us now but I’m glad to see it didn’t get worse.

So what next? More political turmoil? More inflation? The world will find out soon I’m sure.

I’ve been telling people to allocate some savings in the form of everyday nickels. Why? Because they contain 75% copper. Copper is rising in price daily which means your $0.05 nickel is actually worth something closer to $0.08 which makes it a great way to “invest”.

If you are asking how you “make money” on something like this the short answer is go long on nickels. Buy up or collect a bunch of them, save them for a rainy day. Some nickels and other coins from the 40′s, 50′s, and 60′s are now selling for close to $2 a coin, that’s a huge profit if the legal value is $0.10 or something. This price increase is largely based on metal content per coin. Future coin collectors will buy the nickels of today down the road at collectors prices.

I project that nickels will begin to vanish from the market (Gresham’s law) as people begin to hoard them. Once they vanish you will then see the collectors market take off for these nickels. Right now the US Mint is subsidizing your metal and commodity purchases, take advantage of this! It won’t be available for much longer.