num_pages: 288
description: Nestled deep in the towers of banking and finance are the commodities traders who spend their days gambling with oil gold and corn contracts. Theyre highly-educated world travelers with a penchant for risk and theyre here to bet big on the future of the raw materials that make our economies hum. Theyre very wealthy barely regulated and can be a force for tremendous goodor 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.
language: English
title: The Secret Club That Runs the World: Inside the Fraternity of Commodities Traders
publisher: Portfolio