Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silver lining in Watergate has been the demonstration of the necessity for an investigative, and yes, aggressive press...
...financier and economist who wrote the book while a resident in the Basel prison. The Swiss government insisted that he remain its guest for ten months after the American-owned Swiss bank that Erdman managed failed. Several of the bank's officials went too long in cocoa and silver futures and tried to cover their mistake by fudging the books...
...SILVER BEARS by PAUL ERDMAN 260 pages. Scribner...
...Silver Bears deals in a baser metal, but it is just as entertaining and instructive as the first novel. Although names and places have been somewhat altered, the plot is built on the manic-depressive 1968 fluctuations in the price of silver that made millions for a few and skinned thousands who were convinced that silver had nowhere...
...largest market manipulation in history, and his fact-filled fictional explanation goes like this. Some American Mafiosi, looking for a place to launder their tainted, untaxed dollars, buy a small Swiss bank. One of their first ventures is to bankroll an aristocratic Iranian who claims to have a huge silver mine. Word of this hoard leaks out to one of the world's richest men who also enjoys cornering the world's silver supply. Fearing that the Iranian's silver will flood the market and dilute the price, he makes an offer that even the Mafia cannot...