man, if i had seen that at the time, would have gone long and leveraged till my fingers bled!!!! then sold me parents house and leveraged some more. what is palladium used for anyway?
Apparently it is a core component of iron man's reactor http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/iron-man-2-particle-accelerator Other than that... I couldnt say :/
once you start stacking, it doesn't take long before you come across the famous palladium squeeze most Pd comes from Russia. It is a vital component in catalytic converters, so car manufacturers paid for it, to hell with the cost - in 2001 price spiked at 1100