Goldbug Ping.
OK, I’m missing something here? Why the hell is this a pertinent story? Gee, instead of paying the mortgage I could have bought a frickin overpriced coin. Mother was right, I really am ordinary!
How much of this is merely because of the extra demand for gold and silver coin, making the mint shift their production runs to those instead of platinum?
Sure, Obama will mint $1 trillion of platinum coins if the debt limit isn’t increased. They can legally coin any amount of coinage they want, Ace of Spades has a post about it.