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Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson
Category: Business
For fans of The Black Swan and 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 extrem ...Show more
Chaos Kings - How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson
Category: Economics
There's no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, technological disruption, political radicalisation, religious fundamentalism - all threaten chaos that put trillions in assets at risk. But around the world, across a wide variety of disciplines, wo ...Show more
Dark Pools: The Rise of A.I. Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street by Scott Patterson
Category: Business, Economics and Law
A chilling look at the rise of artificial intelligence in the financial markets. In Dark Pools, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Scott Patterson tells the story of the group of whizzkids who applied their computer programming genius to the invention of 'robot versions of Warren Buffett'. As they did s ...Show more
Dark Pools: The Rise of A.I. Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street by Scott Patterson
Category: Business Finance Management
Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed that humans can't predict what they'll do next. It's the story of the blisteringly intelligent computer programmers behind the rise of these 'bots'. And it's ...Show more
Sci-Fi Junior High by Scott Seegert; John Martin; James Patterson (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Sci-Fi Junior High Ser.
This gleefully illustrated space adventure is a laugh on every page. That's a lot of laughs!Kelvin Klosmo isn't just the new kid at school -- he's the new kid in the galaxy! Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an inter-galactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells, and . . . slime content ...Show more
The Oarsmen: The Remarkable Story of the Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace by PATTERSON, SCOTT
Category: Military | Series: Men Who Rowed from the Great War to Peace
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. T ...Show more
The Quants - How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson
Category: Business
In March 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel. They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes. At the card table that night was Peter Muller, who managed a fabulously successful hedge fund called PDT. With him was Ken Griffin, who ...Show more
The Quants: The Maths Geniuses Who Brought Down Wall Street by Scott Patterson
Category: History
Quants - quantitative analysts - were the maths masterminds let loose on Wall Street in the belief that their brilliant, impregnable computer programs would always beat the market. This book charts their rise from obscurity to boom and then to bust, explaining why they were so confident - and how they g ...Show more
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