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Nelson Bunker Hunt was a Texas oil man with interests in Libya which were nationalize by Muammar Gaddafi and the Titan Resources Corporation is still active in North Africa.

In the early 70s Hunt, along with his brothers William and Lamar began accumulating silver with the intent to corner the market. Their efforts took the price of silver from $11 and ounce to over $50 an ounce. Their successful efforts also brought about the attention of government regulators and the collapse of the price down to about $11 again. It also caused them to declare bankruptcy, partly from the losses and partly from the law suits.

Politically Hunt was a very conservative supporter of the John Birch Society and a supporter of George Wallace when he ran for president. He convinced General Curtis LeMay to be Wallace's running mate, but LeMay did not want to give up his government salary to run for vice president. Hunt's response was to set up a one million dollar trust fund for LeMay to cover his lost income.

He also paid for the full page ad “welcoming” President Kennedy to Dallas.

Squeezing Silver   by Mark A.Cymrot

Famed Nelson Bunker Hunt, along with Saudi sheikhs, manipulated silver prices in 1979-80 while meeting at thoroughbred horse events, five-star hotels and posh restaurants. When prices spiked from $9 to $51, they pocketed billions while thousands were cheated, including Minpeco, Peru's minerals agent. Regulators conflicted by their dealings with Bunker failed to stop his broad daylight conspiracy. When prices crashed two months later, the Hunt defaults threatened the US economy with collapse. Paul Volcker, Federal Reserve Chairman, engineered the first controversial too-big-to-fail bailout to save the US economy.