Download or read book Chaos Kings written by Scott Patterson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, cyberattacks, political radicalization--virtually, everywhere we look there is mayhem bearing down on us, putting trillions of assets at risk." --