The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones.
We rarely stop to consider where they have come from. But we should.
In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the world economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources.
It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets: enabling an enormous expansion in international trade, and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centres.
And it is the story of how some traders acquired untold political power, right under the noses of western regulators and politicians - helping Saddam Hussein to sell his oil, fuelling the Libyan rebel army during the Arab Spring, and funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin's Kremlin in spite of western
sanctions.
The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy, as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really works.
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy are two of the best-known journalists covering energy, commodities and trading houses. Today, they both work for Bloomberg News, where Blas is Chief Energy Correspondent and Farchy is a Senior Reporter covering natural resources. Working together both at the Financial
Times and now at Bloomberg, they've interviewed most of the key figures in the commodity trading industry, in many cases the first interviews the traders had ever given. They have an extensive network of contacts among executives, financiers, investors, government officials and civil society. They
founded the FT Global Commodities Summit, an annual conference which has become established as the pre-eminent gathering of the industry. This is their first book.
在我们这个互联网日益发达的时代,秘密将会越来越少。但依然还是有一些即使互联网也很难触及到的角落,秘密依然存在。 既然有秘密,也就一定有揭秘的人存在。虽然不容易,但是对于这些秘密探索的好奇心还是驱使着一些人去发掘这些秘密,特别是记者朋友们。让秘密得以发掘,让我...
评分 评分 评分 评分大家还记得去年全球疫情刚起时,有段时间原油价格曾经是负的吗?今天原油价格已经达到70多美元一桶,巨大的价格差,意味着有人发了大财。这些人是谁?他们是怎么做到的?他们对今天的世界影响有多大?The World For Sale这本书就对这些人进行了一个大起底,讲的是石油、粮食、...
Free market in its best and worst forms. 粗扫一遍,书里核心观点就是赚钱就不怕违法,越不明确越赚钱。 还记得Glencore当年上市的Project Galaxy WGL上有花街近乎所有的银行,ESG这些年后又开始扬眉吐气了。
评分Eye-opener. 精彩。把有限的素材写成这样很不错了。什么叫闷声发大财。以后看国际新闻会有更多一层思考。
评分Very interesting
评分Very interesting
评分Okish introduction, but lack of indepth understanding. Michael Lewis' work is better?