Reborn in America: Starting as a California Resident

After all, it's rare for someone from a humble background to be so determined as to study management, a major that has extremely strict requirements regarding family background.

However, why would a top student like her choose to become a flight attendant?

It's not that I look down on the flight attendant industry, it's just that compared to her educational background, the entry requirements for this industry are indeed a bit low.

I didn't investigate further.

Henry guessed that the story behind all this was nothing more than a family's decline or some rather dramatic and bizarre events.

He wasn't in a hurry to verify whether Alice was telling the truth. If she did come to apply for the job, his team would naturally conduct a thorough investigation into her background.

Henry smiled and said, "Hmm...you could review some books on business management and administration."

"OK."

Alice Williams responded obediently.

Henry then closed his eyes and began to rest.

Alice secretly prepared a glass of ice water for him.

Apart from that, she did not make any other moves.

After a flight of nearly five and a half hours, the Boeing 747 began its slow descent to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The loud noise of the plane's engines gradually subsided a few minutes after it touched down.

As Henry prepared to disembark, he glanced at Alice Williams again, who gave him a sweet smile.

Henry smiled, then got off the plane without lingering.

A VIP shuttle bus had been waiting by the runway for a long time. It slowly drove up, picked up Henry, and took him to the VIP exit.

At the exit of the VIP passage, Henry immediately spotted Jeff Williams from American Express, his driver Carl, and a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties.

The man, who shows signs of balding, is Julian Robertson, the current CEO of Apollo Capital.

Upon spotting Henry at the exit, Julian Robertson immediately strode forward, extended his right hand, and warmly shook hands with him: "Boss, we have completed your orders."

Among these, we acquired a total of 4.12% of Walmart and 2.1% of McDonald's shares in the secondary market, at a total cost of US$6500 million;

In addition, we also successfully acquired a 20% stake in Home Depot (HD), which you mentioned.

However, unlike the previous two, ...

Home Depot received the injection through a bridge loan, and the debt-to-equity swap clause was tied to the founder's farm as collateral.

"very good!

With your good news, my anticipation for this grand event has only grown stronger.

Henry rushed back to New York because he was going to participate in the biggest wealth feast of 1979—the layout of the silver and gold markets.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Before 1980, the Hunter family of Texas was once among the world's richest families.

They were slightly better off than the Getty family of California, to which Henry belonged.

His family founder, H.L. Hunter, was born in 1889 into a farming family in Illinois.

Despite lacking formal education, he achieved great success in the business world through his intelligence and courage.

In 1912, 23-year-old Hunter started his cotton farming business in Arkansas;

With the onset of World War I, agricultural product prices soared, bringing Hunter his first enormous fortune.

By 1957, Fortune magazine estimated H.L. Hunter's total wealth to be between $4 million and $7 million, placing him among the eight richest people in the United States at the time.

The descendants of the Hunt family did not stop there; they actively sought new investment opportunities: Nelson Hunt invested in Libya's oil industry, although he later suffered a potential loss of up to $40 billion due to the nationalization of the oil fields caused by political turmoil.

Carolyn Hunt founded a hotel group and serves as its chairperson.

Lamar Hunter co-founded the NFL and the NFL, and named the annual NFL championship game the "Super Bowl".

Swanny Hunt not only served as the U.S. ambassador to Austria, but also taught at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

It can be said that the Hunt family's influence is ubiquitous in the political and economic spheres of the United States.

In the early 1970s, soybeans became a key export product for the United States, not only widely used in feed and edible oil production, but also gradually becoming a common ingredient on American tables.

In the summer of 1973, demand for soybeans surged, even leading to supply shortages in the spot market and forcing the U.S. government to suspend soybean exports—a rare occurrence for non-staple agricultural products.

Against this backdrop, soybeans have become the focus of attention.

Sensing a business opportunity, Nelson Hunter decided to use his family resources to engage in speculative activities in the soybean market.

In 1973, Nelson Hunter began acquiring physical silver in the Middle East market while simultaneously buying silver futures contracts in the New York and Chicago futures markets.

This decision demonstrated exceptional strategic foresight. The Hunt family seized the last opportunity before silver prices rose, accumulating substantial positions during the price trough.

By December 1973, the Hunt family had purchased $20 million worth of physical silver and bought 35 million ounces of silver futures contracts at a cost of $2.9 per ounce, making them one of the world's largest holders of silver.

In the summer of 1979, Nelson Hunter finally launched his all-out attack.

He plans to push silver prices to a new high, causing them to experience explosive growth like gold.

This is how one of the most spectacular tragedies in the history of commodity futures, which is about to unfold, began.

To achieve his goal, Nelson Hunter, through his "International Metals Investment Company," placed buy orders for a total of 4000 million ounces of silver on futures exchanges in New York and Chicago.

This seemingly mysterious investment company actually has only two types of shareholders: the Hunt family and some members of the Saudi royal family and wealthy individuals.

If you really want to draw a comparison, you can think of this company as another "Blackstone Group"—a greedy board of directors plus a foreign exchange investor from a developing country.

Nelson Hunter and his brother William Hunter completed these purchase orders through several Wall Street brokerage firms, including well-known investment banks such as Hilson and Beck.

With massive buying activity emerging in the market, silver prices quickly surged from $6 to $11 per ounce, but no one in the market knew who the buyers behind it were.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission began investigating the trading records and eventually found that most of the buy orders came from an "International Metals Investment Company" registered in Bermuda.

Those whose core interests have been violated will certainly not be easily fooled.

Ultimately, after a more in-depth investigation by all parties, the Hunter family, who had been hiding behind the scenes, finally came to light.

Everyone who learned of this news was utterly shocked;

Soon, every trader in New York and Chicago learned that the Hunter family was the mastermind behind the "International Metals Investment Company".

At that time, the Hunt family was one of the wealthiest families in the world, with a size comparable to CITIC Group in China in later generations!