They were a band of outsiders unable to get jobs with New York’s gilded
financial establishment. They would go on to corner the world’s
multitrillion-dollar oil market, reaping unimaginable riches while
bringing the economy to its knees. Meet the self-anointed kings of the
New York Mercantile Exchange. In some ways, they are everything you
would expect them to be: a secretive, members-only club of men and
women who live lavish lifestyles; cavort with politicians, strippers,
and celebrities; and blissfully jacked up oil prices to nearly 50 a
barrel while profiting off the misery of the working class. In other
ways, they are nothing you can imagine: many come from working-class
families themselves. The progeny of Jewish, Irish, and Italian
immigrants who escaped war-torn Europe, they take pride in flagrantly
spurning Wall Street.
Unabridged.
Read by Robert Fass.
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