“You bought twenty million nickels?”

[Cent1225]

I think we are on to something.
Here is a guy willing to put his money where his mouth is.
You need to read this article about a hedge fund manager that just bought $1,000,000 in nickels.
Go To:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/some-word ... -kyle-bass

Here is part of the interview:
On nickels:
He still owned stacks of gold and platinum bars that had roughly doubled in value, but he remained on the lookout for hard stores of wealth as a hedge against what he assumed was the coming debasement of fiat currency. Nickels, for instance.

“The value of the metal in a nickel is worth six point eight cents,” he said. “Did you know that?”

I didn’t.
“I just bought a million dollars’ worth of them,” he said, and then, perhaps sensing I couldn’t do the math: “twenty million nickels.”

“You bought twenty million nickels?”

“Uh-huh.”

“How do you buy twenty million nickels?”

“Actually, it’s very difficult,” he said, and then explained that he had to call his bank and talk them into ordering him twenty million nickels. The bank had finally done it, but the Federal Reserve had its own questions. “The Fed apparently called my guy at the bank,” he says. “They asked him, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ So he called me and asked, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ And I said, ‘I just like nickels.’”

He pulled out a photograph of his nickels and handed it to me. There they were, piled up on giant wooden pallets in a Brink’s vault in downtown Dallas.
“I’m telling you, in the next two years they’ll change the content of the nickel,” he said. “You really ought to call your bank and buy some now.”

[Mercuryman]

I think we are on to something.
Here is a guy willing to put his money where his mouth is.
You need to read this article about a hedge fund manager that just bought $1,000,000 in nickels.
Go To:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/some-word ... -kyle-bass

Here is part of the interview:
On nickels:
He still owned stacks of gold and platinum bars that had roughly doubled in value, but he remained on the lookout for hard stores of wealth as a hedge against what he assumed was the coming debasement of fiat currency. Nickels, for instance.

“The value of the metal in a nickel is worth six point eight cents,” he said. “Did you know that?”

I didn’t.
“I just bought a million dollars’ worth of them,” he said, and then, perhaps sensing I couldn’t do the math: “twenty million nickels.”

“You bought twenty million nickels?”

“Uh-huh.”

“How do you buy twenty million nickels?”

“Actually, it’s very difficult,” he said, and then explained that he had to call his bank and talk them into ordering him twenty million nickels. The bank had finally done it, but the Federal Reserve had its own questions. “The Fed apparently called my guy at the bank,” he says. “They asked him, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ So he called me and asked, ‘Why do you want all these nickels?’ And I said, ‘I just like nickels.’”

He pulled out a photograph of his nickels and handed it to me. There they were, piled up on giant wooden pallets in a Brink’s vault in downtown Dallas.
“I’m telling you, in the next two years they’ll change the content of the nickel,” he said. “You really ought to call your bank and buy some now.”

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[shinnosuke]

And right now on coinflation.com a nickel is worth:
1946-2011 Nickel $0.05 $0.0485990 97.19%

That price below face value does not, however, persuade me to stop keeping all my nickels.

[iluc]

Gotta say I'm a Kyle Bass fan. Way out front on these things within his profession. This was first discussed on The Colbert Nation more than a year ago by Michael Lewis, but at the time he didn't disclose Bass as the guy.

[John_doe]

Smart guy.


I have a hard time keeping nickels, I typically use them as a means to get my money out of fiat short term.


I get bored watching them, so I dump them to buy cents to sort.

[AGgressive Metal]

I would rather have the equivalent dollar amount in gold or silver, but when you have as much money as him, you can afford to diversify!

[shinnosuke]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K-F_QF1XTXI

Kyle Bass, the king of nickels, speaks on the "idiocy of spending" in Europe and the US and Japan. Watch him pwn the BBC airhead.