Source: Cobden Centre
by Tim Price
“In June 1983, Paramount Studios released a comedy starring Dan Akyroyd and Eddie Murphy which culminates in an attempt by two wealthy commodity brokers to corner … the market in frozen concentrated orange juice futures, of all things. The film was called ‘Trading Places’ …. This was a peculiarly commercial example of Art imitating Life. Three years earlier, Bunker and Herbert Hunt, Texan heirs to an oil fortune, had attempted to corner the market in silver. … Although the current silver market environment would seem to suggest that the story of the Hunt Brothers – wild bull market followed by calamitous crash – is playing out all over again, there are some key distinctions this time around …” (01/06/26)