A few years back I seriously thought about trying to buy Rhodium. It was cheaper than gold, and someone–I think it was Mark Call–told me it was extremely underpriced. At the time, I was mostly curious. I was more concerned with finding the money for groceries than for investments. (Deja vu moment.) Now I wish I’d skipped meat in favor of metal. while I was growing my waistline, rhodium grew in dollar-worth by more than 1800%!
5-year rhodium chart from kitco.com
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It may have been, Jay – although I’ve never been able to find a good way to actually purchase physical Rhodium for delivery, either. (I like Palladium, too, but did find a couple ways to get some of that. Eric Cedarstrom has it now as well.)
And then of course there’s silver – still my favorite for the inevitable explosion, even more so than gold. Up over 300% now since the bottom, it’s still very cheap IMHO. I have said for years that I expect a bag of junk silver ($1000 face, pre-1964 dimes or quarters) to purchase a decent starter home in most towns before the real estate meltdown and silver meltup is over…
Try americanelements.com. I don’t know what their prices are like, but they make coins out of 60 different metals. Uranium, too, but I’m not sure they’ll mail those to your house.
You could always build your own reactor, Jay, and transmute your own rare metals.
Just like this kid.
When I took Reactor Lab in college, there was a device called a subcritical assembly. It included metal tubes containing uranium slugs. The slugs were about 8 inches long and 3/4 inch thick, if I remember correctly. They were just natural uranium, not enriched or anything. There wasn’t much security; I probably could have snuck one out if I’d had the guts to try it. Perhaps I should have.