The Silver Squeeze: What the Hunt Brothers Got Right... and Fatally Wrong
By Matt Oliver
“The way the dollar’s going, there’s no point in keeping money. Real wealth is silver and gold.”
— Nelson Bunker Hunt, 1980
In the early 1970s, inflation was rampant, trust in paper money was eroding, and the U.S. had just abandoned the gold standard. Amid this uncertainty, Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt, billionaire brothers and heirs to one…
