Extreme Money

'A true insiders devastating analysis of the financial alchemy of the last 30 years and its destructive consequences.  With his intimate first-hand knowledge, Das takes a knife to global finance and financiers to reveal its inner workings without fear or favor.'

-Nouriel Roubini, Professor of Economics at NYU Stern School of Business and Chairman of Roubini Global Economics

'Das describes the causes of the financial crisis with the insight and understanding of a financial wizard, the candor and objectivity of an impartial observer, and a wry sense of humor that reveals the folly in it all.'

Brooksley Born, former chairperson of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

Once upon a time human society built things. We engineered beautiful objects and created authentic goods. Now this real industrial engineering has been replaced by financial engineering: shuffling money in an endless process of debt, trading and speculation. Its enabled vast fortunes to be made for a few, while the risk was borne by ordinary people the 'privatisation of gain' and 'socialisation of losses'.

Extreme Money tells the story of spectacular and dangerous money games and those elite bankers, traders and financiers, the so-called Masters of the Universe, who continue to play them. Written by an insider, Extreme Money will show you how, little by little, weve all become slaves to financial alchemy and have been enchanted by our own illusory creation: the cult of global finance.