The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources Condition:Good From Paris to New York

From Paris to New York to Hollywood

the retired high school teacher from Birmingham

a Wall Street titan whose clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007 may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recession worse

our culture and our food

Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre

The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources Condition:Good From Paris to New YorkMeet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food no matter how corrupt, war torn or famine stricken the source. 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 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 economy: the workings of the billionaire