Another nutshell moment

via Raw Story, from the NYT:

This week the cost of the metals in a penny rose above 0.8 cents, more than twice the value of last fall. Because the government spends at least another six-tenths of a cent -- above and beyond the cost of the metal -- to make each penny, it will lose nearly half a cent on each new one it mints.

That's right. This administration is so incompetent it loses money printing money.

Their secret?

(wait for it....)

Volume.