Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis Patterson Scott
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis Patterson Scott A Wall Street Journal BestsellerWritten by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating…
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Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis Patterson Scott
A Wall Street Journal BestsellerWritten by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls.There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. In Chaos Kings, Scott Patterson depicts how one faction, led by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swan, believes humans can never see the big disaster coming. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk.And at least two factions have formed around how to respond.
In their view, extreme events--so-called Black Swans--while inevitable, will always