Chaos Kings - How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

"Written 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. 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." --

About the author

Scott Patterson has been a reporter for more than two decades, mostly at The Wall Street Journal in New York City, Washington, DC, and London. His 2010 New York Times bestseller The Quants was about the rise of mathematical traders and their near destruction of the financial system. His second book, Dark Pools, which exposed how high-frequency trading had rigged the stock market, was lauded by a pantheon of financial writers. A winner of the Loeb Breaking News Award, Patterson has made frequent appearances in the media, including on CNBC, The Daily Show, and Fresh Air. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife and son.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Patterson, Scott Patterson
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2024
• EAN: 9781982179946
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-7994-6
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 272 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / Stocks, Economics, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / Financial Risk Management, Management decision making, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Finance and the finance industry