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

Author: Eric J. Weiner

Narrator: John Allen Nelson

Unabridged: 8 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/29/2010


Synopsis

Eric J. Weiner's critically acclaimed first book, What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen, was selected as one of the year's best books by Barron's magazine and one of the year's Most Enriching Reads by Kiplinger's. Weiner has demonstrated a deep knowledge of Wall Street and how the international financial world operates. Now, in The Shadow Market, he reveals that an enormous reshuffling of global fiscal power is taking place—and that Americans are powerless to stop it.

Most of us are unaware of the multitrillion-dollar network of super-rich, secretive, and largely unregulated investment vehicles—foreign sovereign wealth funds, private equity funds, and hedge funds—that are quietly buying up the world, piece by piece. The Shadow Market tells the definitive story behind this side of high finance, the side most people rarely get to see. It doesn't have a physical headquarters, like Wall Street or the New York Stock Exchange, or an index to track. But it's there, pulling the levers behind the curtain.

Weiner investigates the evolution of the international market that now dominates the global financial world—where money mixes with geopolitical power, sometimes invisibly, and other times quite publicly. Highly informative and sometimes startling, The Shadow Market is an urgent warning to the worldwide community and a must-listen for anyone interested in the future of the global economy, America's position in the world, or how and where to invest money.

About Eric J. Weiner

Eric J. Weiner has covered business and economics issues for fifteen years as a writer and editor. He is the author of the critically acclaimed What Goes Up: The Uncensored History of Modern Wall Street as Told by the Bankers, Brokers, CEOs, and Scoundrels Who Made It Happen and a former columnist and reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Village Voice, and countless other major publications. Eric lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with his wife, Paige.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leonidas on September 05, 2020

The Shadow markets: How a group of wealthy nations and powerful investors secretly dominate the world By: Eric J. Weiner As the title suggest, there are incredibly large pools of money that are moving around every single day. The important thing to note is that these movements of money are not for the......more

Goodreads review by Book on October 15, 2010

The Shadow Market How A Group of Wealthy Nations and Powerful Investors Secretly Dominate The World By Eric J. Wiener This book explains the flow of global capital away from the United States and Europe. It gives many reasons why Europe and the United States currently are not growing and are in a re......more

Goodreads review by Christopher on May 10, 2012

Great read on what goes on outside and behind Wall street.......more

Goodreads review by Charles on May 18, 2014

I am not en expert in the economic sciences or in the details of the market, even after the melt-down in 2008. However, the title and the catch-line blurb of Weiner's hardbound book fascinated me. I thumbed through it while in the store and, being a conspiracy theory addict. was immediately swept up......more

Goodreads review by Ugh on September 26, 2024

An ok book about an interesting subject. Maybe it was more novel when it was published a decade or more ago. At times it feels like it strays too far from its subject, becoming generally about China or, weirdly, the Lockerbie bombing. The tone is also jarringly impartial at times. And the personal i......more