How to Get Rich
Laleh Khalili: Who owns the oil?, 23 September 2021
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy.
Random House Business, 410 pp., £20, February,978 1 84794 265 4 Show More
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy.
Random House Business, 410 pp., £20, February,
“... This seems to be the mantra of the titans of commodity trading interviewed by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy: ‘We are just here for the money; we are not doing politics.’ I suppose it all depends on what you take ‘politics’ to mean.The origin myth of today’s commodity trades goes back to the era of decolonisation. But they can of course be ... ”
