Revisiting the First Silver Bubble  With smoke still rising from
the ruins of the recent silver crash, I thought I’d touch base
with a wizened and grizzled old veteran who still remembers the
last time a bubble popped for the white metal. That would be
Mike Robertson, who runs Robertson Wealth Management, one of the
largest and most successful registered investment advisors in
the country (click here for his site at  Mike is the last
surviving silver broker to the Hunt Brothers, who in 1979-80
were major players in the run up in the ‘poor man’s gold’ from
$11 to a staggering $50 an ounce in a very short time. At the
peak, their aggregate position was thought to exceed 100 million
ounces.  Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt were the
sons of the legendary HL Hunt, one of the original East Texas
oil wildcatters, and heirs to one of the largest  fortunes of
the day. Shortly after president Richard Nixon took the US off
the gold standard in 1971, the two brothers became deeply
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