The World For Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources, Javier Blas explains more

Interesting conversation with Javier Blas, coauthor of The World For Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources

Most of us rarely stop to consider where the crude resources that power our cars and iphones come from. Here, leading Bloomberg journalists, Blas and Farchy lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised but most powerful corners of the economy: the workings of the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard and sell the earth's resources, and how some traders have 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, or funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin's Kremlin in spite of strict sanctions.

Available from Penguin books here

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1118404/the-world-for-sale/9781847942654.html

More about Javier Blas

Print and online journalist with more than 15 years experience in international economics, oil and commodities. I have built and managed teams across different continents, and built a track-record of best-in-class reporting and news editing. I have worked in Spanish and English publications, and reported from more than 50 countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. I have appeared as a news commentator on CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera among others.