Title: Obscene Gestures of an Invisible Hand: Financial Doom and the Death of Culture - The Lighter Side
Publisher: Lulu.com
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1411618726
ISBN 13: 9781411618725
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good

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Jack Klein is a young theoretical physicist turned Wall Street wizard, using chaos theory to beat markets and questioning why he left the life of the mind. Then a flammable hairpiece and irate commuters trigger a bizarre chain of events, collapsing a foreign currency and raising him to the pinnacle of finance. Soon, Jack finds the fluke that brought him stardom sets in motion a crisis that could destroy both him and the global economy. To stave off disaster, the trader must move in realms of money, power and conspiracy, where a media mogul dreams of turning classic literature into video games, Japanese bankers defend samurai legacies and a hedge fund titan thinks he's a Bond villain. Yet it's a brilliant, seductive ex-ballet dancer turned music producer who makes Jack see salvation lies in understanding the choices he's made. But she's made secret and shocking accommodations of her own, and her mystery just adds to a conundrum he can solve only by deciphering... Obscene Gestures of an Invisible Hand.

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Jeffrey J. Trester holds an S.B. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended Yale University for doctoral studies in physics, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received his Ph.D. in financial economics. His scholarly writings have been published in the Physical Review, the Astrophysical Journal, the American Journal of Physics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, European Financial Management, the Journal of Portfolio Management, and Applied Economics He co-founded a pioneering Internet firm. He is an independent economist and investor, has served on the Business Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and has had his comments featured by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, PRI, Der Spiegel, and other media.

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