The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Javier Blas (Author), Jack Farchy (Author), John Sackville (Narrator),

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Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source.

The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones.

We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But we should.

In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources.

It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets: enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centres.

And it is the story of how some traders acquired untold political power, right under the noses of Western regulators and politicians - helping Saddam Hussein to sell his oil, fuelling the Libyan rebel army during the Arab Spring and funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin's Kremlin in spite of strict sanctions.

The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy, as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really works.

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12 hours and 4 minutes
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John Sackville
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Feb. 25 2021
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B08SR593W7
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Listening Length	12 hours and 4 minutes
Author	Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
Narrator	John Sackville
Audible.ca Release Date	February 25 2021
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08SR593W7
Best Sellers Rank	#5,103 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #14 in International Relations (Audible Books & Originals) #33 in Oil & Energy Industry (Books) #39 in Commodities Trading (Books)

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Serge Lefebvre

Livrer rapidement

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 22, 2022

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Excellent livre ….

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Kirk Daren Gamley

Super great reading

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 18, 2022

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Very interesting read particularly for current events in the World today….. very well researched book and authors do a wonderful job presenting the normally opaque world of commodity traders

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Sabby

Love to read interesting topics.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 31, 2021

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Makes you think.

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Interesting content but sensationalist and repetitive at times

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 3, 2021

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I bought this book for interest in physical commodity trading. Interesting read and I learnt a few new things. The writing style is sensationalist and repetitive at times.

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A valuable insight into the history & evolution of commodity trading

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 5, 2021

Fantastic book , it was hard to put down. The history of the big trading houses , the evolution of the commodity trading industry , the geopolitics , the actors , well researched , and well presented. Highly recommended for those with an interest in the history of commodity trading.

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Gazzarian

Business meets geopolitics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 9, 2021

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If you hesitate to read this because it looks like a recounting of obscure financial manouevres, be assured that it isn't. You don't need to know, or care, much about business or finance to follow these intriguing stories. The writing itself is a joy to read, as the authors demonstrate their mastery of the subject by their ability to clarify it. And they bring to life the personalities who built and dominated this global underworld. But it's at its most valuable in showing how the traders lay behind some major global headlines. So, along with pretty much everybody else, a delighted 5* from this reader.

25 people found this helpful

Fantastic book, shines a light on the world of commodities

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 1, 2021

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This is an absolutely cracking read - Blas and Farchy dissect the murky world of commodities traders surgically, slowly peeling back each layer over the decades. It’s an incredibly well-researched book, littered with insightful anecdotes, which highlights how commodity trading straddles the spheres of finance, politics and war. For anyone with a passing interest in commodities this is a must-read, but if you want to learn more about commerce and geopolitics then you need to order this ASAP. You won’t be disappointed.

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James-philip Harries

Longer spoons please

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 9, 2022

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Hooray! Your maiden aunts have written a history of the modern commodities trade, and it is very amusing.
Two purse lipped journalists from Bloomberg chronicle the dodgy dealings of ruthless capitalists with disreputable regimes, in order to put food on our plates and fuel our lifestyles.
Are these merchants really as bad as all that? No doubt the address books of Glencore, Vitol and others include some pretty unsavoury characters. But I write this review a day after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who was also obliged to sup with some blood soaked tyrants: Brezhnev, Ceaucescu, Xi Jing Ping, numerous Arab sheikhs, Toni Blair...
The difference appears to be that it's all right if it's done for politics, but not if it's done for money. Hmmm.
Bringing the story up to date, you can be sure that Putin is being robbed blind by the oil traders as they help him get round sanctions and keep the lights on in India. Sanctions busting is older than the story of Jacob and Esau. And the bible approves of the subterfuge.
So I'm going to recommend this book to any parent with a child who has a sense of adventure and the desire to get stonkingly rich.
Meanwhile, if we are going to continue to invite devils to banquets in Buckingham Palace perhaps we should invest in some longer cutlery.

6 people found this helpful

M. Gould

Duplication in the Commodity Market

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 15, 2021

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Having already read The King Of Oil ( Daniel Ammann ) The Secret Lives of Marc Rich I was disappointed with this effort. Having received a good preview in the recent Sunday Times Culture Supplement I was expecting some original information re Marc Rich which was not already in the public domain.

A lot of repeat from the Rich book published in 2009 and lacking depth as regards the current state of affairs in the Commodity World.

Something rather than nothing in this interesting subject but only just.

9 people found this helpful

Phil

A highly recommended read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 10, 2021

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This has to be one of my favourite ever books! It gives a great insight in to the commodity trading world. Being from the industry myself I found huge chunks eminently relatable. Please note that this book is not written by accountants detailing how the finance industry works, rather the swashbuckling adventures it takes by commodity traders to get the trade done in sometimes dangerous situations.

Highly recommended

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