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.
发表于2025-01-27
The World for Sale 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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评分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...
评分这本书可以认为主要就是讲故事,偏重于各大trading houses及核心人员的八卦;发财的方法不是没有,只是对一般人而言没啥可操作性... 此处暂且记录一些印象较深的片段 Great Grain Robbery:1972年,苏联派人到美帝收购粮食(wiki上说原因是drought+mismanagement)。本书中对事...
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、...
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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.
Eye-opening narrative of how the commodity traders made their fortune and ascend to power in the global trade system and beyond
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评分从石油七姐妹的瓦解,到第三世界的独立、苏联解体、古巴危机、中东冲突、再到中国的崛起及新冠的爆发,在过去的五十年,大宗商品贸易商凭借着勤奋、独特的商业眼光及冒险精神,在石油、矿产、粮食等领域,赚得是盆满钵满。刀尖上行走,富贵险中求。 随着Glencore的上市,曾低调隐秘、鲜为人知的行业走进了大众的视野,备受关注和监管。信息的民主化,全球贸易的发展,气候变化,中国国家队的加入,大宗贸易商的黄金时代已然落幕。 然而只要市场有效率差异,就会有价格差,就必然会有贸易商的存在。近似疯狂的勤奋,聪明,非凡的人际交往和一心搞钱的专注,注定会引领一个新的时代。
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The World for Sale 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书