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The Shadow Market
How Sovereign Wealth Funds Secretly Dominate the Global Economy
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Inside the super-rich, super-secretive, unregulated funds that are wresting control of world finance
The most potent force in global commerce today isn’t Wall Street, the multinational banks, or the governments of the G7 countries. In this brilliant and startling investigation, acclaimed business reporter Eric J. Weiner uncovers the real powers guiding our shaky recovery from the worldwide financial crisis and shaping the economy of our future.
Taking advantage of the current recession and the liquidity problems in the United States and Europe, cash-flush nations such as China, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even Norway are using sovereign wealth funds and other investment vehicles to secure major holdings in multinational corporations as well as massive tracts of farmland and natural resources.
This is the Shadow Market, quietly controlling political agendas as well as the flow of capital in the West – and assembling gigantic investment portfolios that will form the power structure of tomorrow’s economy.
The most potent force in global commerce today isn’t Wall Street, the multinational banks, or the governments of the G7 countries. In this brilliant and startling investigation, acclaimed business reporter Eric J. Weiner uncovers the real powers guiding our shaky recovery from the worldwide financial crisis and shaping the economy of our future.
Taking advantage of the current recession and the liquidity problems in the United States and Europe, cash-flush nations such as China, Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even Norway are using sovereign wealth funds and other investment vehicles to secure major holdings in multinational corporations as well as massive tracts of farmland and natural resources.
This is the Shadow Market, quietly controlling political agendas as well as the flow of capital in the West – and assembling gigantic investment portfolios that will form the power structure of tomorrow’s economy.
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Topic
EconomíaSubtopic
Condiciones económicasIndex
Abu Dhabi, 134–41, 146, 191
Dubai crisis and, 143–44
investments and, 2, 7–8, 134–40, 142–43, 193, 216, 227, 230
private equity and, 33, 136
shadow market and, 4–8
Ackermann, Josef, 239
Adam, Brian, 222
Adams, Brad, 79
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), 137
Afghanistan, 25, 186–87
Africa, 21, 182–83, 190, 197–98, 209, 257, 260, 263
Abu Dhabi and, 136
agricultural investments and, 150, 152–54, 266
Chinese investments and, 63, 98–99
Libya and, 165, 167–69, 179, 182, 185
Norway’s investments and, 215– 16
NucTech case and, 116–17
Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Sheik, 135, 140
al-Attiyah, Khalid bin Mohamed, 175–76
Albanese, Tom, 115
Algeria, 136, 186
Alibaba Group, 125
Alobidi, Abdulati, 174–75
Al Qaeda, 150, 186, 190
Al Sa’ad, Bader M., 129–34, 229
al-Saleh, Abdulrahman, 142–43
Aluminum Corporation of China (Chinalco), 69, 89, 96, 107–9, 111
Andrew, Duke of York, Prince, 173, 180
Angola, 64, 77, 90, 186
Apollo Management, 33
Argentina, 29, 63, 82, 96–97, 150–51
Ásgrímsson, Halldór, 209
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), 63, 92, 263
Atkin, Carl, 151
AU Optronics Corp., 57
Australia, 216, 261, 263, 265
agricultural investments and, 152, 154
Chinese corporate culture and, 109, 114
Chinese investments and, 89–90, 107–9, 152
Rio Tinto and, 99–115
Backer, Larry Catá, 195
Bahrain, 136, 150
banks, banking, bankers, 1...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph Page
- Prologue: The Future Happened Yesterday
- One: Money Is a Weapon
- Two: How to Spend $4 Trillion
- Three: The Land of Giants
- Four: Chinese Hardball
- Five: Too Small to Fail
- Six: Rogue Oil
- Seven: Beware the Do-Gooders
- Eight: Colonizing Europe in the Twenty-first Century
- Nine: Now On Sale! Everything Must Go!
- Epilogue: But What About Me?
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author