• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Jest, perhaps. But you can already buy copper bullion for “investment” purposes the same as you can do with gold and silver:

    https://www.jmbullion.com/copper/copper-bars/

    This is, of course, for the express purposes of parting fools who listen to too much AM talk radio from their money. Copper is worth, what, a little under $6 a pound right now? So these one ounce ingots that they’re hawking for nine bucks each in reality contain about 37 cents worth of metal.

    Copper is self-evidently not an investment or speculation vehicle, unless you are able to front the money to deal with it in quantities measured in tons.