How Nelson Bunker Hunt tried to corner the silver market

In the 1970s, billionaire Texan Nelson Bunker Hunt bought vast amounts of silver. It nearly brought down the American financial system.

Nelson Bunker Hunt, the Texan oil tycoon who tried to corner the silver market in the 1970s and went spectacularly bust, had a wonderful way with words, says The Daily Telegraph.

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money," he told US Senate investigators when explaining his role in the debacle.

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