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The Silver Bullet podcast, presented by Media & Capital Partners, features disruptors from all across the Australian business landscape. We chat with startup founders, ASX-listed company CEOs, and all sorts of brilliant business minds and innovative thinkers in between. Hosted and produced by journalist and communications professional Rowan Barker, The Silver Bullet dismisses the idea that business success comes from hard work alone. Rather, those who build successful businesses are all innovators in their own way, and whether through their philosophies, lifestyle choices, beliefs or new ways ...

This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the 19th century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the US economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II.