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Search - The Shadow Market: How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World

The Shadow Market How a Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate the World
Author: Eric J. Weiner

Acclaimed financial journalist Eric J. Weiner reveals how foreign countries and private investors are increasingly controlling the global economy and secretly wresting power from the United States in ways that our government cannot reverse and about which the average American knows nothing. — The most potent force in global commerce today is not ... more »the Federal Reserve, multinational banks, or the governments of the G7 countries. Rather, it is the multi-trillion-dollar network of super-rich, secretive, and largely unregulated investment vehicles -- foreign sovereign wealth funds, government-run corporations, private equity funds, and hedge funds -- that are quietly buying up the world, piece by valuable piece.

As Weiner's groundbreaking account shows, the shadow market doesn't have a physical headquarters such as Wall Street. It doesn't have a formal leadership or an index to track or a single zone of exchange. Rather, it comprises an invisible and ever-shifting global nexus where money mixes with geopolitical power, often with great speed and secrecy. Led by cash-flush nations such as China, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even Norway, the shadow market is hiring the brightest international financial talent money can buy and is now assembling the gigantic investment portfolios that will form the power structure of tomorrow's economy.

Taking advantage of the Great Recession and subsequent liquidity problems in the United States and Europe, the major players of the shadow market are deploying staggering amounts of cash, controlling the capital markets, and securing not only major stakes in multinational companies but huge tracts of farmland and natural resources across the world. Yet that's not all; they're also pursuing political agendas made possible by their massive wealth and are becoming increasingly aggressive with the United States and other governments.

Highly informative and genuinely startling, Eric J. Weiner's up-to-date account gets out in front of daily events, with proof of his argument destined to appear in the news for years to come. The Shadow Market moves the conversation from "international competition" to "global financial warfare," and stands as an urgent must-read for anyone interested in the future of the global economy, America's position in the world, or how and where to invest money today. (edited by author)

ISBN-13: 9781439109151
ISBN-10: 143910915X
Publication Date: 9/21/2010
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Hardcover
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