The secret club that runs the world

inside the fraternity of commodity traders

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The secret club that runs the world

inside the fraternity of commodity traders

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"Nestled deep in the towers of banking and finance are the commodities traders who spend their days gambling with oil, gold, and corn contracts. They're highly-educated world travelers with a penchant for risk, and they're here to bet big on the future of the raw materials that make our economies hum. They're very wealthy, barely regulated, and can be a force for tremendous good--or ill. Now Kate Kelly, the bestselling author of Street Fighters, shines light not just on the commodities market, but also on some of its key figures. Her characters include Pierre Andurand, a hedge-fund manager who generated the winningest annual performance ever for an oil trader in 2008, and Ivan Glasenberg, whose secretive Swiss commodities giant, Glencore, has been thrown into the spotlight. Kelly paints a dramatic narrative of immense power in the hands of a few, and the so-far hapless efforts by the Obama Administration to rein in the cowboys"--

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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Language
English
Pages
264

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-252) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
332.63/28
Library of Congress
HG6046.5 .K46 2014, HG6046.5 .K46 2014eb, HG6046.5.K46 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 264 pages
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27158430M
Internet Archive
secretclubthatru0000kell_b2y2
ISBN 10
1591845467
ISBN 13
9781591845461
LCCN
2014011517
OCLC/WorldCat
875771309

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