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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword. #Commodities
Foreword. #Blockchain and Bitcoins
Introduction
1. Tulip Mania: The Biggest Bubble in History (1637)
2. The Dojima Rice Market and the “God of Markets” (1750)
3. The California Gold Rush (1849)
4. Wheat: Old Hutch Makes a Killing (1866)
5. Rockefeller and Standard Oil (1870)
6. Wheat: The Great Chicago Fire (1872)
7. Crude Oil: Ari Onassis’s Midas Touch (1956)
8. Soybeans: Hide and Seek in New Jersey (1963)
9. Wheat: The Russian Bear Is Hungry (1972)
10. The End of the Gold Standard (1973)
11. The 1970s—Oil Crisis! (1973 & 1979)
12. Diamonds: The Crash of the World’s Hardest Currency (1979)
13. “Silver Thursday” and the Downfall of the Hunt Brothers (1980)
14. Crude Oil: No Blood for Oil? (1990)
15. The Doom of German Metallgesellschaft (1993)
16. Silver: Three Wise Kings (1994)
17. Copper: “Mr. Five Percent” Moves the Market (1996)
18. Gold: Welcome to the Jungle (1997)
19. Palladium: More Expensive Than Gold (2001)
20. Copper: Liu Qibing Disappears Without a Trace (2005)
21. Zinc: Flotsam and Jetsam (2005)
22. Natural Gas: Brian Hunter and the Downfall of Amaranth (2006)
23. Orange Juice: Collateral Damage (2006)
24. John Fredriksen: The Sea Wolf (2006)
25. Lakshmi Mittal: Feel the Steel (2006)
26. Crude Oil: The Return of the “Seven Sisters” (2007)
27. Wheat and the “Millennium Drought” in Australia (2007)
28. Natural Gas: Aftermath in Canada (2007)
29. Platinum: All Lights Out in South Africa (2008)
30. Rice: The Oracle (2008)
31. Wheat: Working in Memphis (2008)
32. Crude Oil: Contango in Texas (2009)
33. Sugar: Waiting for the Monsoon (2010)
34. Chocolate Finger (2010)
35. Copper: King of the Congo (2010)
36. Crude Oil: Deep Water Horizon and the Spill (2010)
37. Cotton: White Gold (2011)
38. Glencore: A Giant Steps into the Light (2011)
39. Rare Earth Mania: Neodymium, Dysprosium, and Lanthanum (2011)
40. The End? Crude Oil Down the Drain (2016)
41. Electrification: The Evolution of Battery Metals (2017)
42. Crypto Craze: Bitcoins and the Emergence of Cryptocurrencies (2018)
Outlook: The Dawn of a New Cycle and a New Era
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
References
About the Author
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