Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe & the Cult of Risk (Financial Times Series): The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
Language: English
Published by FT Publishing International, 2011
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- Title
- Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe & the Cult of Risk (Financial Times Series): The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
- Author
- Das, Satyajit
- Publisher
- FT Publishing International
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0273723979
- ISBN 13
- 9780273723974
- Edition
- 1st Edition
The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook money―a lubricant of society and human well-being―for an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happened―and, in so doing, it tells the story of the modern world.
Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that have generated increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, Ponzi prosperity, sophistication, and wealth―while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside the financial industry. Das shows how “extreme money” has become ever more unreal; how “voodoo banking” continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of “Masters of the Universe” has come to dominate the world.
Extreme Money is about:
The new financial fundamentalism: false gods, false prophets - Faith in money, faith in risk, faith in shadows
The cult of risk and the growth engine that isn’t - How financial engineering replaced real engineering and illusions replaced reality
Financial alchemy and the “Doomsday Debt Machine”- The rise of the global financial machine we cannot escape
The new global oligarchy―and the nihilistic games they play - Too smart, too fast, too greedy, too self-absorbed―and far too dangerous
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About the Author
Satyajit Das is an internationally respected expert in finance with 33 years’ experience. He has worked for the “sell side” (Citicorp Investment Bank and Merrill Lynch), the “buy side” (as Treasurer of the TNT Group), and as a consultant advising banks, investors, corporations, and central banks worldwide. Das is the author of many highly regarded standard reference books on derivatives and risk management. In 2006, he published the international bestseller Traders, Guns & Money, an extraordinary insider’s account of the world of derivatives trading. In Traders and in a series of speeches in 2006 entitled - The Coming Credit Crash, Das anticipated many of the problems that became apparent in the financial crisis and are still affecting the global economy. He was recently featured in Charles Ferguson’s 2010 Oscar®-winning documentary Inside Job and the 2009 BBC documentary Tricks with Risk.
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