Metal Men: Marc Rich and the 10-Billion-Dollar Scam - Hardcover

Copetas, Craig A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399130780 ISBN 13: 9780399130786

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1985

Synopsis

Tells the story of Marc Rich, a commodities broker whe earned over ten billion dollars in the metals market, was convicted on thirty-eight counts of tax evasion, and fled to Switzerland

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Marc Rich is one of the most successful traders of metals and other minerals. He is also now living in Switzerland, wanted in the United States for tax evasion. While Copetas's book is ostensibly about Rich and his questionable dealings, it also gives a fairly interesting account of the metals trading industry itself: individualistic, barely regulated, tense, fast-paced, potentially lucrative, and often shady. The character and atmosphere of Phillip Brothers, the trading house where Rich got his start, and of Rich's own firm are nicely contrasted and delineated. Neither Rich nor the metal trading industry come off very well. For larger business collections. Stuart Gudowitz, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399130780
• ISBN 13: 9780399130786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224