Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy (repost)
Riches Among the Ruins: Adventures in the Dark Corners of the Global Economy
AMACOM | English | 2009-03-18 | ISBN: 081441060X | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
AMACOM | English | 2009-03-18 | ISBN: 081441060X | 256 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Today, Robert P. Smith is a legend in the world of finance. Part adventurer and part economic warrior, this Indiana Jones of the financial world was an advance man for the forces of globalization, having spent more than thirty years traveling through five continents, buying and selling high risk securities in the world's most downtrodden economies. So tenuous was his operation and so covert the transactions, that an overnight fluctuation in a country's currency rate could mean the difference between a spectacular profit or a devastating loss.