Global Market Cornering: The Hunt Brothers and Silver Thursday

To corner a global commodities market is considered an impossible financial feat, requiring astronomical wealth, unbreakable nerve, and absolute secrecy. Yet, at the end of the 1970s, two Texan billionaires came terrifyingly close to owning the world's entire supply of silver, nearly breaking the American financial system in the process. Nelson and William Hunt utilized massive amounts of levera...