The Hunt Brothers

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Nothing to see, can listen in a background tab. It's an hour long and I'm about 6 minutes into it, so I'm not sure if they cover anything novel or interesting...

 

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Interesting stories start at around the 16 minute mark.

 

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In many ways, the three brothers couldn’t have been more different. Bunker Hunt was a paunchy billionaire who flew economy and owned hundreds of thoroughbred horses. Lamar Hunt helped create the American Football League, founded the Kansas City Chiefs and coined the name Super Bowl. Herbert Hunt was the numbers guy, a details man who avoided the spotlight and mowed his own lawn.

All three were sons of H.L. Hunt, a Texas oilman who turned poker winnings into one of the world’s largest fortunes, a bigamist who taught his many children to be skeptical of the government and its paper money. And they all bought silver—lots of silver—which landed them at the center of the biggest commodities-trading scandal of the 20th century.
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As Herbert Hunt—the last survivor of the three, who died April 9 at the age of 95—put it in a call to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on what became known as “Silver Thursday”: “I’m busted.”
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More (long):

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...rner-the-silver-market-dies-at-95/ar-AA1o5Ok5

 

[glockngold]

Bump
Interesting read.
It's a long way to 50 this time around.
And 50 FRN is only worth a fraction of 1980's FRN.

 

[chieftain]

What about their cousin, Mike Hunt...?

 

[Viking]

What about their cousin, Mike Hunt...?

Old and worn out. Useful life over.

 

[WinkWink]

What about their cousin, Mike Hunt...?