Bøger af Satyajit Das

Traders Guns and Money is a wickedly comic expos of the culture, games and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world. And played out with other peoples money. A sensational insiders view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives, this revised edition explains the frighteningly central role that derivatives and financial products played in the global financial crisis. This worldwide bestseller reveals the truth about derivatives: those financial tools memorably described by Warren Buffett as financial weapons of mass destruction. Traders, Guns and Money will introduce you to the players and the practices and reveals how the real money is made and lost.The global financial crisis took almost everyone by surprise and even now new problems keep appearing and solutions continue to be elusive. In the original version of Traders, Guns and Money, Satyajit Das provided a highly prescient insight into the structure and risk of the world financial system exposing the problems that are becoming readily apparent. In a 2006 speech The Coming Credit Crash Das argued that: "e;an informed analysis shows that risk is not better spread but more leveraged and (arguably) more concentrated. This does not improve the overall stability and security of the financial system but exposes it to increased risk of a "e;crash"e;.

The human race created money and finance. But our inventions re-create us. Mankind mistook moneya lubricant of society and human well-beingfor an end in itself. Finance, the monetary shadow of real things, came to dominate human reality. Extreme Money tells the story of how this happenedand, in so doing, it tells the story of the modern world.Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws on 33 years of personal experience at the heart of modern global finance to narrate this story. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that have generated increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, Ponzi prosperity, sophistication, and wealthwhile endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside the financial industry. Das shows how extreme money has become ever more unreal; how voodoo banking continues to generate massive phony profits even now; and how a new generation of Masters of the Universe has come to dominate the world. Extreme Money is about:The new financial fundamentalism: false gods, false prophets - Faith in money, faith in risk, faith in shadowsThe cult of risk and the growth engine that isnt - How financial engineering replaced real engineering and illusions replaced realityFinancial alchemy and the Doomsday Debt Machine- The rise of the global financial machine we cannot escapeThe new global oligarchyand the nihilistic games they play - Too smart, too fast, too greedy, too self-absorbedand far too dangerous

With a lot of enterprises moving towards cloud, the need for advanced cloud networking has significantly increased. This book follows a recipe-based approach starting with basic topics to covering the pain points of cloud networking, and will teach you to perform complex networking tasks.